hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
No Free Rides Act

Bill: 114-hr-1249
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Poverty and welfare assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

No Free Rides Act 

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to any taxpayer whose identifying social security number was issued pursuant to a work authorization obtained under any program not specifically established by law that provides aliens deferred action from removal. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that payment under the Medicare program to a long-term care hospital for inpatient services shall not be made at the applicable site neutral payment rate for certain discharges involving severe wounds, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-1250
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit payment at the applicable site neutral payment rate for discharges in a cost reporting period beginning before October 1, 2017, from subsection (d) hospitals and certain long-term care hospitals that involve certain severe wounds.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
 
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall study the treatment needs of individuals entitled to benefits under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance), or enrolled under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), requiring specialized wound care, and the cost, for such individual, and the Medicare program of treating severe wounds in rural and urban areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 28, United States Code, to add a Federal defender representative as a nonvoting member of the United States Sentencing Commission, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-1251
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Lawyers and legal services
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code to add a federal defender representative designated by the Judicial Conference of the United States as a nonvoting member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1252
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fair Sentencing Clarification Act of 2015

 
 Directs: (1) a court, in cases in which a sentence has not yet been imposed with respect to the application of the penalty amendments of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to cocaine base offenses committed prior to the enactment of such Act, to impose such sentence as if such amendments were in effect on the date the offense was committed; and (2) the Court of Appeals to remand for resentencing consistent with such amendments such cases in which a sentence has already been imposed, if subject to a pending appeal on or after August 3, 2010.
 
Authorizes the sentencing court, in the case of a defendant who has been convicted of such an offense committed before August 3, 2010, for which a term of imprisonment has been imposed, to reduce the term of imprisonment for that crime consistent with the amendments made by that Act on motion of the defendant or the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, or on its own motion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Prisoner Incentive Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1253
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Prisoner Incentive Act of 2015

 
 Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) allow federal prisoners to earn up to 54 days of credit toward the service of a sentence for each year of the prisoner's sentence imposed by the court if the Bureau of Prisons determines the prisoner has displayed exemplary compliance with institutional disciplinary regulations; and (2) authorize the Bureau to restore credit previously denied to a prisoner, based on such prisoner maintaining good behavior. Makes this Act applicable to each prison sentence that has not been completed before the date of enactment, except any sentence imposed before November 1, 1987.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Recidivism Clarification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1254
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Recidivism Clarification Act of 2015

 
 Amends the federal criminal code, with respect to additional penalties for using or carrying a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, to: (1) modify the penalty to require an additional prison term of not more than 5 years, not more than 7 years if the firearm is brandished, and not more than 10 years if the firearm is discharged (currently, not less than 5, 7, or 10 years respectively); (2) allow a prison term for any term of years (currently, minimum mandatory term of 25 years) for a person who has a prior conviction that has become final; (3) require an additional prison term of not more than 15 years (currently, not less than 15 years) for using, carrying, or possessing armor piercing ammunition during the commission of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime; and (4) eliminate the death penalty for cases in which the use of such ammunition results in a death. 
 
Makes this Act applicable to conduct engaged in and sentences imposed before, on, or after the date of this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1255
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2015

 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate increased and mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses involving mixtures or substances which contain cocaine base (i.e., crack cocaine).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Concrete Pump Tax Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1256
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Concrete Pump Tax Fairness Act of 2015
 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a vehicle mileage tax on owners of mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicles. Defines "mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicle" as a vehicle which is mobile machinery and on which the mounted machinery consists of a concrete boom pump and related subordinate parts. Directs that revenues from such tax be deposited into the Highway Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Rape Survivor Child Custody Act

Bill: 114-hr-1257
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crimes against women
Evidence and witnesses
Family relationships
Law enforcement administration and funding
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Rape Survivor Child Custody Act

 
 Directs the Attorney General to make grants to states that have in place a law that allows the mother of any child that was conceived through rape to seek court-ordered termination of the parental rights of her rapist with regard to that child, which the court shall grant upon clear and convincing evidence of rape.
 
Limits such a grant to: (1) an amount that is not greater than 10% of the average of the total funding of the three most recent awards a state received under the STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program and the Sexual Assault Services Program; and (2) a one-year term, subject to renewal for not more than three additional years.
 
Requires a state that receives such a grant to use: (1) 25% of grant funds for permissible uses under the STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program, and (2) 75% of funds for permissible uses under the Sexual Assault Services Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Pet and Women Safety Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1258
Sponsor: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Crimes against women
Domestic violence and child abuse
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Sex offenses
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Pet and Women Safety Act of 2015

 
 Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit threats or acts of violence against a person's pet under the offenses of stalking and interstate violation of a protection order. Defines &quot;pet&quot; to mean a domesticated animal that is kept for pleasure rather than for commercial purposes.
 
Requires the &quot;full amount of the victim's losses&quot; for purposes of restitution in domestic violence and stalking offenses to include any costs incurred for veterinary services relating to physical care for the victim's pet.
 
Directs the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to carry out programs to provide specified housing assistance, support services, and training of relevant stakeholders to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their pets.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that states should encourage the inclusion of protections against violent or threatening acts against the pet of the person in domestic violence protection orders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1260
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits with a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that: (1) allows an income tax credit of up to $2,500 of the qualified tuition and related expenses of a student who is carrying at least one half of a normal course load, (2) increases the income threshold for reductions in the credit amount based upon modified adjusted gross income, (3) allows a lifetime dollar limitation on such credit of $15,000 for all taxable years, and (4) makes a portion of such credit refundable. Allows an exclusion from gross income of any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Accountability Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1261
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Appropriations
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Accountability Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to eliminate provisions that fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) using transfers from the earnings of the Federal Reserve System. The transfers under current law permit the CFPB to be funded outside of the annual appropriations process, and this bill brings the CFPB into the regular process. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Right to Financial Privacy Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1262
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Consumer Right to Financial Privacy Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to revise the prohibition against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)'s obtaining, from a covered person or service provider, any personally identifiable financial information about a consumer.
 
Prohibits the CFPB, in addition, from requesting, accessing, collecting, using, retaining, or disclosing nonpublic personal information about a consumer unless: (1) the CFPB clearly and conspicuously discloses to the consumer, in writing or in an electronic form, what information will be requested, obtained, accessed, collected, used, retained, or disclosed; and (2) the consumer informs the CFPB, before such information is requested, obtained, accessed, collected, used, retained, or disclosed, that such information may be requested, obtained, accessed, collected, used, retained, or disclosed.
 
 Subjects to the same restrictions and conditions to any person directed or engaged by the CFPB to collect such information on its behalf.
 
Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 to repeal the exemption from its application for CFPB examination or disclosure of financial records or information in the exercise of CFPB authority with respect to a financial institution (thus applying the Act to CFPB examinations and disclosures).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1263
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Financial Stability Oversight Council

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 
 
Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to authorize the Chairperson of the Financial Stability Oversight Council to issue a stay of, or set aside, any regulation issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) upon the affirmative vote of the majority of Council members (currently, two-thirds), excluding the Director of the Bureau.
 
Requires the Council, upon the petition of a member agency of the Council, to set aside a final regulation prescribed by the CFPB if the Council decides that such regulation is inconsistent with the safe and sound operations of U.S. financial institutions. (Currently the Council is merely authorized, upon petition, to set aside a final regulation if it would put the safety and soundness of the U.S. banking system or the stability of the U.S. financial system at risk.)
 
Repeals: (1) the prohibition against Council set-aside of a regulation after expiration of a specified time period, and (2) mandatory dismissal of a petition if the Council has not issued a decision within such time period.
 
Requires the CFPB Director, when prescribing a rule under federal consumer financial laws, to consider its impact upon the financial safety or soundness of an insured depository institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House