hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Puerto Rico Hospital HITECH Amendments Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1225
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caribbean area
Computers and information technology
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: 

Puerto Rico Hospital HITECH Amendments Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to apply Medicare HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) payments to subsection (d) hospitals in Puerto Rico to allow them to qualify for incentives for adoption and meaningful use of certified electronic health record Technology.
 
(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.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to clarify the maintenance of effort requirement for local educational agencies.

Bill: 114-hr-1226
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2015-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intergovernmental relations
Special education
State and local finance
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: 
Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to allow local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive federal assistance for the education of disabled children under the Act to reduce their spending for the education of such children if that reduction is attributable to reductions in their spending for employment related benefits for special education personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Work for Warriors Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1227
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2015-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Military readiness
National Guard and reserves
Performance measurement
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: 

Work for Warriors Act of 2015

 
 Authorizes the Department of Defense (DOD) to carry out a pilot program to enhance DOD's efforts to provide job placement assistance and related employment services to members of the National Guard and Reserves and veterans of the Armed Forces. Requires the program to follow a job placement program model that focuses on working one-on-one with a member of a reserve component to cost-effectively provide job placement services.
 
Requires DOD to: (1) develop outcome measurements to evaluate the success of the program, and (2) report to the congressional defense committees on program results.
 
Terminates the authority to carry out the program on September 30, 2018, with an authorized extension for up to two additional fiscal years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Montenegro Border Integrity Act

Bill: 114-hr-1228
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2015-03-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Congressional oversight
Europe
Foreign aid and international relief
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Montenegro
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: 

Montenegro Border Integrity Act

 
This bill prohibits, subject to a waiver in the national interest, any funds available to the Department of Defense, the Department of State, or any other federal department or agency from being provided to the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has agreed to and is in compliance with the state borders established by the Conference on Yugoslavia Arbitration Commission on January 11, 1992.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Government Employee Pension Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1230
Sponsor: Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: 

Government Employee Pension Reform Act of 2015 

 
This bill revises the definition of &quot;average pay&quot; for purposes of federal employee pensions under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System to mean the largest annual rate resulting from averaging rates of base pay over any five (currently, three) consecutive years of creditable service. This change will take effect on January 1, 2017. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Flavia Maboloc Cahoon.

Bill: 114-hr-1231
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2015-03-03 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: 
Provides for the relief of Flavia Maboloc Cahoon.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1235
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 30 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1236
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 60 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1237
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 90 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1238
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 120 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1239
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 150 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1240
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 180 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1241
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 210 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1242
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 240 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1243
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 270 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1244
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 300 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1245
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 330 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

Bill: 114-hr-1246
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Fiscal Sanity Act for the National Debt

 
This bill suspends the public debt limit for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending 365 days later. The debt limit, often referred to as the debt ceiling, is the maximum amount of debt that the Department of the Treasury can issue to the public and to other federal agencies. Under current law, the debt limit is suspended through March 15, 2015. 


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
Improving Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1247
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Hospital care
Licensing and registrations
Nursing
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Improving Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015

 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to revive, for a three-year period, VA's Intermediate Care Technician Pilot Program that was carried out between January 2013 and February 2014. Requires VA to: (1) expand the pilot program to include at least 250 intermediate care technicians, and (2) give priority in assigning those technicians to VA facilities at which veterans have the longest wait times.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to transfer credentialing data regarding DOD health care providers that are hired by VA to VA.
 
Authorizes VA to allow a covered nurse to practice to the full scope of the nurse's practice, as defined by the applicable national professional association, under a set of VA-approved privileges, regardless of the state in which VA employs the covered nurse. Defines a &quot;covered nurse&quot; as an advanced practice registered nurse who is employed by VA as: (1) a nurse midwife, (2) a clinical nurse specialist, (3) a nurse practitioner, or (4) a certified registered nurse anesthetist.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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 Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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 Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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 46, United States Code, to exempt old vessels that only operate within inland waterways from the fire-retardant materials requirement if the owners of such vessels make annual structural alterations to at least 10 percent of the areas of the vessels that are not constructed of fire-retardant materials.

Bill: 114-hr-1248
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Fires
Marine and inland water transportation
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 
Amends federal shipping law to extend through October 31, 2028, the exemption of certain vessels from the requirement that U.S. passenger vessels having berth or stateroom accommodations for at least 50 passengers be constructed of fire-retardant materials in order to be granted a certificate of inspection.
 
Continues to apply this exemption only to vessels in operation before January 1, 1968, which operate only within the Boundary Line (the dividing point between inland waters and high seas).
 
Requires the owner or managing operator of an exempt vessel to: 
 
 
notify crew members that the vessel does not comply with applicable fire safety standards due primarily to the wooden construction of passenger berthing areas, and
 
make annual structural alterations to at least 10% of vessel areas that are not constructed of fire-retardant materials.
 
 
Requires any noncombustible material requirements prescribed by the Coast Guard (with which an exempt vessel is still required to comply) to be consistent with the preservation of a vessel's historic integrity in areas carrying or accessible to passengers or generally visible to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House