hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
A bill to authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.

Bill: 115-s-834
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accidents
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Crime prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 
This bill authorizes FY2018-FY2023 appropriations for the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention to conduct or support research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-835
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Judges
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Supreme Court Ethics Act of
 
2017

 
The bill requires the Supreme Court to promulgate a code of ethics for the Justices of the Supreme Court that shall include the five canons of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges adopted by the Judicial Conference of the United States, with any amendments or modifications that the Supreme Court determines appropriate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Credit Union Residential Loan Parity Act

Bill: 115-s-836
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Credit and credit markets
Housing finance and home ownership
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Credit Union Residential Loan Parity Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Credit Union Act to allow a credit union to extend a member business loan with respect to a one- to four-family dwelling, regardless of whether the dwelling is the member's primary residence. Under current law, a member business loan may be extended with respect to such a dwelling only if it is the member's primary residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2366; text as introduced in Senate: CR S2366)
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Southern Utah Open OHV Areas Act

Bill: 115-s-837
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Land transfers
Motor vehicles
Outdoor recreation
Pipelines
Utah
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Southern Utah Open OHV Areas Act

 
 This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified land owned and managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Washington County, Utah, to the state of Utah in exchange for specified state lands. 
 
Upon the conveyance of the nonfederal land to Interior, such land shall be used only: 
 
 
as an open riding area for the use of off-highway vehicles; or 
 
for any other recreational use that does not significantly impact the open use of such vehicles. 
 
 
Interior shall convey, without consideration, specified Open OHV Areas managed by the BLM to Washington County. 
 
Such conveyed land shall be used primarily as an open riding area for the use of off-highway vehicles or for the construction, maintenance, replacement, or operation of: 
 
 
water storage or conveyance facilities; 
 
subsurface water recharge facilities; or 
 
solar or hydroelectric generation or transmission facilities. 
 
 
Before making such conveyance, Interior shall issue to the Washington County Water Conservancy District or the state: 
 
 
a 250-foot right-of-way for the construction, maintenance, repair, and replacement of a buried water conveyance pipeline and the associated construction, operation, and maintenance of subsurface water recharge facilities identified as Pipeline 1; and 
 
a 150-foot right-of-way for the construction and maintenance of solar and hydroelectric generation and transmission facilities identified as Transmission Line. 
 
 
Interior shall convey to the District or the state 214.8 acres of the County-conveyed Open OHV Areas land for the construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of a water storage facility and associated facilities identified as &quot;Hurricane Cliffs Afterbay.&quot; 
 
Before making the conveyance to the County, Interior shall issue to the District a 200-foot right-of-way for the construction, maintenance, repair, and replacement of a buried water conveyance pipeline in the Sand Hollow Regional Pipeline Corridor identified as Pipe Line 2. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-482.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
PACE Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-838
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Consumer credit
Energy efficiency and conservation
Housing finance and home ownership
Property tax
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Protecting Americans from Credit Entanglements Act of 2017 or the PACE Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to extend that Act's requirements to real property retrofit loans. A "real property retrofit loan" is a loan that is: (1) secured by an interest in real property; (2) repayable in installment payments made concurrently with the payment of property taxes on the real property; and (3) used to finance real property retrofits, including energy-efficiency upgrades, renewable-energy installations, seismic retrofits, water-conservation upgrades, and other similar improvements.
 
Before extending a real property retrofit loan, the creditor must disclose that the loan will result in a lien on the real property securing the loan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-11
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-56.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-839
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Judicial review and appeals
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns Act of 2017

 
This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring compliance with Clean Air Act rules concerning national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants with respect to brick and structural clay products manufacturing or clay ceramics manufacturing until judicial reviews of the rules are complete.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works Senate Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-127.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Go to High School, Go to College Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-840
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Go to High School, Go to College Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Department of Education to carry out (from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2023) a program awarding Early College Federal Pell Grants to students to support their enrollment in, and completion of, postsecondary courses offered through early college high schools.
 
Students who would be eligible for a Federal Pell Grant if not for their enrollment in secondary school are deemed eligible for an Early College Federal Pell Grant upon their completion of a full-time postsecondary semester or its equivalent.
 
Students may receive Early College Federal Pell Grants in an amount equal to the cost of not more than four full-time postsecondary semesters or the equivalent while enrolled in postsecondary courses offered by an early college high school.
 
Early College Federal Pell Grants shall count toward the 12-semester, or equivalent, limit on a student's receipt of Federal Pell Grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
National Veterans Memorial and Museum Act

Bill: 115-s-841
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Monuments and memorials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Ohio
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

National Veterans Memorial and Museum Act

 
This bill designates the Veterans Memorial and Museum currently being constructed in Columbus, Ohio, as the National Veterans Memorial and Museum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-417.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Carbon Capture Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-843
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Income tax exclusion
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Oil and gas
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Carbon Capture Improvement Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for the financing of qualified carbon dioxide capture facilities.
 
A &quot;qualified carbon dioxide capture facility&quot; is any equipment installed in an industrial carbon dioxide facility that satisfies specified capture and storage requirements and: (1) is used for the capture, treatment and purification, compression, transportation, or on-site storage of carbon dioxide produced by the industrial carbon dioxide facility; or (2) is integral or functionally related and subordinate to a gasification process that converts a product from coal, petroleum residue, biomass, or other materials which are recovered for their energy or feedstock value into a synthesis gas composed primarily of carbon dioxide and hydrogen for direct use or subsequent chemical or physical conversion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
GI Bill Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-844
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Military medicine
National Guard and reserves
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

GI Bill Fairness Act of 2017

 
This bill includes as active duty, for purposes of eligibility for post-9/11 veterans educational assistance, service of a member of a reserve component ordered to active duty to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated, or to complete a required Department of Defense health care study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-215.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

Bill: 115-s-845
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Cemeteries and funerals
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Disability and paralysis
Disaster relief and insurance
Domestic violence and child abuse
Educational facilities and institutions
Evidence and witnesses
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Immigration status and procedures
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Lawyers and legal services
Protest and dissent
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an immigration enforcement action by the Department of Homeland Security or an individual designated to perform immigration enforcement functions may not take place at a sensitive location, unless: (1) the action involves exigent circumstances, and (2) prior approval was obtained from the appropriate official. 
 
A &quot;sensitive location&quot; includes all of the physical space located within 1,000 feet of: 
 
 
 medical treatment or health care facilities; 
 
 public and private schools; 
 
 scholastic or education-related activities; 
 
 school bus or school bus stops during periods when school children are present; 
 
 any organization that assists children, pregnant women, victims of crime or abuse, or individuals with significant mental or physical disabilities or that provides disaster or emergency social services; 
 
 places of worship; 
 
 funerals, weddings, or other public religious ceremonies; 
 
 public demonstrations; 
 
 federal, state, or local courthouses; or
 
 any domestic violence shelter, rape crisis center, supervised visitation center, family justice center, or victim services provider.
 
 
The bill shall not apply to the transportation of an individual apprehended at or near a land or sea border to a hospital or health care provider for the purpose of providing such individual with medical care.
 
If an enforcement action is carried out in violation of this bill: (1) no information resulting from the action may be entered into the record or received into evidence in a resulting removal proceeding, and (2) the affected alien may file a motion for such proceeding's immediate termination. 
 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall provide training to officers and report to Congress on any enforcement activity occurring at sensitive locations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE Bridges Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-846
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Strengthen And Fortify Existing Bridges Act of 2017 or the SAFE Bridges Act of 2017 

 
 This bill directs the Department of Transportation to establish a program to assist states to rehabilitate or replace bridges found to be structurally deficient. 
 
States shall use apportioned program funds for projects to rehabilitate and replace such bridges.
 
The federal share of project costs is 100%.
 
Prevailing rate of wage requirements for construction of federal-aid highways projects shall apply to such projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission Act

Bill: 115-s-847
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Commemorative events and holidays
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
U.S. history
Voting rights
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission Act

 
This bill establishes a Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission to develop and execute programs and activities to commemorate the centennial of the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibits the federal government and states from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote on account of sex.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Reigniting Opportunity for Innovators Act

Bill: 115-s-848
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Small business
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Reigniting Opportunity for Innovators Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make qualified founders and full-time employees of small business start-ups eligible for deferring for up to three years their loans under the federal Direct Loan program.
 
If the start-up is located in an economically distressed area, qualified founders and employees are also eligible for loan cancellation of up to $20,000 under that program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2367)
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-850
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2017
 
This bill amends title I (General Provisions) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise institutional eligibility criteria for a foreign graduate medical school to participate in federal student aid programs.
 
Current law requires a foreign graduate medical school to meet certain requirements&#8212;a minimum pass rate threshold on the medical licensing exam and a minimum percentage of foreign students&#8212;to participate in the Federal Direct Loan (DL) program, unless the Department of Education (ED) establishes alternative standards or the school has a grandfathered clinical training program. This bill terminates ED's authority to establish alternative standards and eliminates the exemption for a school with a grandfathered clinical training program (i.e., it requires all foreign graduate medical schools to meet minimum requirements to participate in the DL program).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text as introduced in Senate: CR S2367-2368)
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-852
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the nondiscrimination requirements for certain defined benefit retirement plans that limit participation or certain features to a closed class, such as individuals who were hired before a certain date. 
 
(Under current law, the plans may not discriminate in favor of highly compensated employees and must meet minimum participation requirements.) 
 
The bill applies only to a defined benefit plan that: (1) closed before April 5, 2017; or (2) was in effect for at least five years when it closed and did not substantially increase the coverage or value of the benefits, rights, or features for the closed class during the five-year period before it closed, except as the result of certain business acquisitions or mergers. 
 
Such a plan meets the nondiscrimination requirements if it: (1) satisfies certain testing rules for the year that the class closes and the two succeeding plan years, and (2) is not amended in a discriminatory manner after the class is closed. 
 
A defined contribution plan that offers additional contributions or benefits to a closed class whose benefits under a defined benefit plan have been reduced or eliminated meets the nondiscrimination requirements if: (1) the group receiving the contributions or benefits satisfies certain testing rules for the year in which the group is closed and for two subsequent plan years, and (2) the plan is not amended in a discriminatory manner. 
 
A defined benefit plan that is either closed or has ceased benefit accruals for all participants (frozen plan) satisfies the minimum participation requirements if the plan met the requirements when it was closed or frozen. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate