hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Enhancing Safety at Military Installations Act

Bill: 114-hr-3115
Sponsor: Rep. DesJarlais, Scott [R-TN-4]
Introduced: 2015-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Defense
Firearms and explosives
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: 

Enhancing Safety at Military Installations Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to issue a new directive authorizing trained military personnel to carry military-issued firearms on military bases and Armed Forces recruitment facilities. 
 
Army Regulation 190-14, entitled &quot;Carrying of Firearms and Use of Force for Law Enforcement and Security Duties,&quot; and DOD Directive Number 5210.56, entitled &quot;Use of Deadly Force and the Carrying of Firearms by DOD Personnel Engaged in Law Enforcement and Security Duties&quot; are repealed.
 
Any provision in any other law, rule, regulation, or executive order that prohibits trained military personnel from carrying officially issued firearms on military bases and Armed Forces recruitment facilities shall have no force or effect.
 
Trained military personnel shall not be prohibited from carrying officially issued firearms on military bases or Armed Forces recruitment facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: Introduced in House
FEM Products Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3117
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2015-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax exclusion
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: 

Fund Essential Menstruation Products Act of 2015 or the FEM Products Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax exclusion for reimbursements from a health flexible spending arrangement to include amounts paid or incurred for feminine hygiene products. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To eliminate the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection by repealing title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010.

Bill: 114-hr-3118
Sponsor: Rep. Ratcliffe, John [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2015-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: 
This bill repeals the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010, which established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
 
The bill revives or restores the provisions of law amended by such Act as if it had not been enacted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

Bill: 114-hr-3119
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical education
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Neurological disorders
Nursing
Research administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants or contracts for Palliative Care and Hospice Education Centers. These Centers must improve the training of health professionals in palliative care and establish traineeships for individuals preparing for advanced education nursing degrees, social work degrees, or advanced degrees in physician assistant studies in palliative care.
 
HHS may make grants to, and enter into contracts with, schools of medicine, schools of osteopathic medicine, teaching hospitals, and graduate medical education programs to support the training of physicians who plan to teach palliative medicine.
 
HHS must: (1) provide Palliative Medicine and Hospice Academic Career Awards to individuals to promote their career development; (2) award grants or contracts to entities that operate a Palliative Care and Hospice Education Center; (3) award incentive grants or contracts to advanced practice nurses, social workers, physician assistants, pharmacists, chaplains, or students of psychology pursuing an advanced degree in palliative care or related fields; and (4) award grants to schools of nursing, health care facilities, or programs leading to certification as a nurse assistant to train individuals in providing palliative care.
 
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality must provide for a national education and awareness campaign to inform patients, families, and health professionals about the benefits of palliative care.
 
The National Institutes of Health must expand national research programs in palliative care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Assurance Program Verification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3120
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Great Lakes
Illinois
Indiana
Lakes and rivers
Michigan
Minnesota
New York State
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Water quality
Watersheds
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Great Lakes Assurance Program Verification Act of 2015
 
 
This bill amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a Great Lakes basin initiative for agricultural nonpoint source pollution prevention. (Nonpoint source pollution comes from diffuse sources and is caused by precipitation moving over or through the ground and carrying pollution.) 
 
In implementing the initiative, USDA must: 
 
 
 provide grants to Great Lakes states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin) for education and outreach, technical assistance, and voluntary programs to verify implementation of practices to reduce nonpoint pollution from agricultural activities; 
 
establish a funding priority within the Great Lakes basin for payments to producers that participate in the initiative to achieve verification through a state verification program; and 
 
use existing data.
 
 
In carrying out the initiative, states may collaborate with entities that have agricultural or environmental expertise, including academic or nonprofit organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3121
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Farmland
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2015 

 
 This bill directs the Department of the Interior to develop and maintain a current, accurate multipurpose cadastre (inventory) of federal real property to assist with federal land management activities, including, but not limited to, resource development and conservation, agricultural use, active forest management, environmental protection, and use of real property. Interior may enter into cost-sharing agreements with states to include any non-federal lands in this cadastre. The federal share of any such agreement shall be up to 50% of the total cost to a state for the development of a cadastre of the non-federal lands. 
 
Interior shall report on: (1) existing executive agency real property inventories or any components of any cadastre; (2) consolidation of inventories and components; (3) the use of existing inventories and components of any cadastre; (4) cost savings that will be achieved; (5) a plan for implementation of this Act, including a cost estimate and the feasibility of using revenue from any authorized transactional activity to offset such costs; and (6) recommendations for legislation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2015-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
VALOR Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3122
Sponsor: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Veterans Administration Legislative and Objective Review Act of 2015 or the VALOR Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with a non-government entity to conduct a biannual audit of VA health care functions, the results of which shall be made publicly available on a VA website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Tax Credit Accountability Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3123
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Poverty and welfare assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Tax Credit Accountability Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to any alien individual who is in an unlawful immigration status at any point during the taxable year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Clean Slate for Marijuana Offenses Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3124
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Clean Slate for Marijuana Offenses Act of 2015

 
Amends the federal criminal code to allow an individual convicted of a qualifying marijuana-related offense, upon filing a petition for expungement and fulfilling all requirements of the sentence for such conviction, to obtain an order granting expungement of such conviction.
 
Defines a "qualifying marijuana-related offense" as an offense against the United States in which the conduct constituting the offense: (1) was legal under the state law at the time of the offense, or (2) was the possession of not more than one ounce of marijuana.
 
 Gives the government 60 days to contest such a petition, in which case the court shall allow the government and the petitioner an opportunity to present evidence and argument relating to the petition. Directs the court to approve or deny the petition based on its determination that the petition either is supported by, or is not supported by, a preponderance of the evidence. 
 
Declares that: (1) an order granting expungement restores the individual concerned to the status that individual occupied before the arrest or the institution of criminal proceedings for the offense for which expungement is granted; (2) the individual is not required to divulge information pertaining to an expunged conviction and such conviction shall not disqualify that individual from pursuing or engaging in any lawful activity, occupation, or profession; (3) such individual is not guilty of making a false statement by reason of that individual's failure to recite or acknowledge arrest or conviction of such offense; and (4) records pertaining to an expunged conviction shall be destroyed.
 
Directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to maintain a nonpublic record of such expungement orders and the names of and alphanumeric identifiers selected by DOJ for persons who obtain expungement, which record shall be made available only to the individual to whom the expungement pertains. Establishes penalties for the unauthorized disclosure of information relating to an expunged conviction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1093-1094)
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3125
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to submit a biannual report to Congress on the number of proposed firearm transfers where: (1) a licensed gun dealer submitted a background check through the National Instant Criminal History Background Check System (NICS), (2) NICS failed to respond to the licensed gun dealer within three business days, and (3) the licensed gun dealer completed the transfer.
 
The FBI must also report on the procedures followed once the transferee is discovered to be ineligible. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from furnishing the name of any individual in a report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System unless a Federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective.

Bill: 114-hr-3126
Sponsor: Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Disability assistance
Firearms and explosives
Mental health
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 
 This bill prohibits the Social Security Administration from providing to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) the name of any individual entitled to benefits, including any individual whose benefits are paid to a representative payee, unless a federal court has determined the individual to be mentally defective. (Current law prohibits the sale or transfer of a firearm to and the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Kisatchie National Forest Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 114-hr-3127
Sponsor: Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Louisiana

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Kisatchie National Forest Land Conveyance Act

 
Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to sell specified federal land in Winn Parish, Louisiana. Requires USDA to sell a portion of that land to Collins Camp Properties for the Collins Campsites.
 
Requires sale proceeds to be used for the acquisition of lands and interests in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
FUELS Act

Bill: 114-hr-3129
Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act 

 
This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ease the application of the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule on certain farms. 
 
The rule requires certain non-transportation-related facilities to prevent, prepare, and respond to oil discharges that may reach navigable waters or adjoining shorelines. Among other requirements, the rule requires those facilities to: (1) certify compliance with their SPCC plans; and (2) based on the plan, construct containment facilities that would hold the contents of aboveground oil storage tanks if they should spill. 
 
The bill increases the oil storage thresholds that necessitate compliance with those requirements by raising the aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity thresholds for: (1) farms required to have an SPCC plan, (2) farms that self-certify their SPCC plan, and (3) farms that require a certification of their SPCC plan from a professional engineer.
 
The bill also raises the aboveground oil storage capacity of containers that must be included in calculating the aggregate aboveground storage capacity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act

Bill: 114-hr-3130
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Domestic violence and child abuse
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to: 
 
 
 state that the term &quot;intimate partner&quot; includes a dating partner and any other person subject to a protection order under state domestic or family violence law; and
 
 expand the term &quot;misdemeanor crime of domestic violence&quot; to include the use or attempted use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, by a current or former intimate partner. 
 
 
The bill makes it a crime to knowingly sell or dispose of a firearm to a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of stalking. It also makes it a crime for such convicted stalker to receive or possess a firearm. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Bureau Research Transparency Act

Bill: 114-hr-3131
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

Bureau Research Transparency Act 

 
 Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to require the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, any time it issues a research paper available to the public, to accompany it with all studies, data, and other analyses on which it was based.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
To increase the amount of funding available for fiscal year 2015 for certain general business loans authorized under the Small Business Act.

Bill: 114-hr-3132
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 
This bill amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 to increase the limit from $18.75 billion to $23.5 billion for FY2015 commitments for general business loans authorized under the Small Business Act for a combination of amortizing term loans and the aggregated maximum line of credit provided by revolving loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Introduced in House