hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Age Discrimination in Employment Parity Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6811
Sponsor: Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Age discrimination
Employment discrimination and employee rights

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Age Discrimination in Employment Parity Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to lower the number of employees, from 20 to 15, that an employer must have in order to be subject to specified prohibitions against age discrimination in the workplace. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Employee Business Expense Deduction Reinstatement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6812
Sponsor: Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Employee Business Expense Deduction Reinstatement Act of 2018 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the miscellaneous itemized deduction for unreimbursed expenses paid or incurred by an individual in connection with the performance of services as an employee. (Under current law, all miscellaneous itemized deductions are suspended through 2025. Miscellaneous itemized deductions are allowed if they collectively exceed 2% of adjusted gross income.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Homecare for Seniors Act

Bill: 115-hr-6813
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Health care costs and insurance
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Homecare for Seniors Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow distributions from health savings accounts (HSAs) to be used for qualified home care. 
 
"Qualified home care" includes a contract to provide three or more of the following services in the residence of the service recipient: 
 
 
 assistance with eating, 
 
 assistance with toileting,
 
 assistance with transferring,
 
 assistance with bathing, 
 
assistance with dressing, 
 
 assistance with continence, and 
 
 medication adherence. 
 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services must carry out a campaign to increase public awareness of the in-home service expenses that are eligible for tax-free distribution from HSAs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Troubled Nuclear Power Plants Communities Assistance Act

Bill: 115-hr-6814
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy revenues and royalties
Government trust funds
Nuclear power
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Troubled Nuclear Power Plants Communities Assistance Act 

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy to establish the Assistance for Communities with Troubled Nuclear Power Plants Program to provide financial assistance for units of local government who have experienced a reduction in tax revenue from nuclear power plants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1248-1249)
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Military Learning for Credit Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6815
Sponsor: Rep. Lamb, Conor [D-PA-18]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Military Learning for Credit Act of 2018

 
This bill allows individuals entitled to veterans educational assistance to use it to cover the costs of taking certain examinations and assessments to receive credit toward degrees awarded by institutions of higher learning for approved education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Family Movie Act Clarification Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6816
Sponsor: Rep. Love, Mia B. [R-UT-4]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Intellectual property
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Family Movie Act Clarification Act of 2018

 
 
 This bill revises copyright law to permit an individual to make certain changes to a motion picture in a personal capacity. Specifically, the bill allows an individual to make limited portions of a motion picture imperceptible during the individual's private viewing. Additionally, a service that enables these changes to a motion picture is permitted. The bill applies only if no fixed copy of the altered version is created. 
 No motion picture copyright owner may take action to prevent an individual or a service from modifying a motion picture in accordance with this bill. 
 This bill makes conforming amendments to trademark law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Home Equity Loan Deduction Restoration Act

Bill: 115-hr-6817
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Home Equity Loan Deduction Restoration Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the deduction for interest on home equity loans. (Under current law, the deduction is suspended through 2025.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Clean Water Infrastructure Act

Bill: 115-hr-6818
Sponsor: Rep. McEachin, A. Donald [D-VA-4]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
American Samoa
Buy American requirements
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Guam
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Infrastructure development
Labor standards
Low- and moderate-income housing
Metals
Northern Mariana Islands
Public contracts and procurement
State and local finance
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Clean Water Infrastructure Act

 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize through FY2022 and revise the drinking water state revolving fund (SRF), including to require SRF-funded projects to use iron and steel produced in the United States. 
 
The bill revises requirements for state Intended Use Plans for SRF funds, including to require the plans to: (1) list systems that are not in compliance with national primary drinking water regulation, (2) reserve a specified amount of funding for assistance for disadvantaged communities, and (3) prioritize SRF funding by those communities.
 
The bill repeals: (1) requirements for regulations on variance technologies, and (2) state authority to exempt small public water systems from national primary drinking water regulations if the system installs certain treatment techniques.
 
The Environmental Protection Agency must:
 
 
prescribe follow up inspections after violations by public water systems, 
 
establish requirements for electronic submission of compliance monitoring data by public water systems, 
 
study the presence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in drinking water sources, 
 
collect data on best practices for administration of SRF programs, 
 
implement a voluntary certification program for effective water loss and leak control technology, and 
 
submit a strategic plan for assessing and managing the risks of drought to drinking water provided by public water systems. 

 
Finally, the bill reauthorizes through FY2023 a grant program for certain lead reduction projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
HELP Act

Bill: 115-hr-6819
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Coal
Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Labor standards
Mining
Performance measurement
Public utilities and utility rates
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Transportation costs
Unemployment
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Healthy Employee Loss Prevention Act of 2018 or the HELP Act

 
This bill establishes (1) a worker adjustment assistance program (including a Transition Adjustment Assistance Fund) to provide assistance and job retraining for workers who have lost their jobs due to unplanned closures of coal and coal dependent industries, and (2) a Critical Employment Advisory Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
PATH Act

Bill: 115-hr-6820
Sponsor: Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Building construction
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Performance measurement
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Pre-Apprenticeships To Hardhats Act or the PATH Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Labor to support the development of pre-apprenticeship programs in the building and construction trades.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6821
Sponsor: Rep. Rooney, Francis [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Cultural exchanges and relations
Espionage and treason
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Judicial review and appeals
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Research administration and funding
Smuggling and trafficking
Terrorism
Trade secrets and economic espionage
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act of 2018

 
This bill establishes a process for designating foreign actors as foreign intelligence threats to higher education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Discourage Dishonest Dialing Act

Bill: 115-hr-6822
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Discourage Dishonest Dialing Act

 
This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to establish regulations requiring providers of voice services to implement caller-identification information-authentication technology that can:
 
 
verify that caller-identification information transmitted with a call is accurate, and 
 
alert a subscriber if a call cannot be verified.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Positive Outcomes After Release Act

Bill: 115-hr-6823
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Supporting Positive Outcomes After Release Act

 
This bill prohibits a state Medicaid program from terminating an individual's medical assistance enrollment because the individual is incarcerated, if the individual was enrolled in medical assistance immediately before becoming an inmate or becomes eligible to enroll while an inmate. However, a state may still suspend an inmate's enrollment. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Online Sales Simplicity and Small Business Relief Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6824
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes
Small business
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Online Sales Simplicity and Small Business Relief Act of 2018

 
This bill prohibits states from imposing a sales tax collection duty on certain remote sellers. A "remote seller" is a person without a physical presence in a state who makes a sale in the state.
 
With respect to remote sellers, a state: (1) may not impose a sales tax collection duty for any sale that occurred before June 21, 2018, and (2) may only impose a sales tax collection duty for a sale that occurs after January 1, 2019. 
 
In the case of a small business remote seller (no more than $10 million in gross annual receipts in the United States), a state may not impose a sales tax collection duty on any person other than the purchaser if the sale is made: (1) on or after June 21, 2018; and (2) before the date that is 30 days after the states develop and Congress approves an interstate compact, applicable to the state and sale, governing the imposition of tax collection duties on remote sellers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Nashua River Wild and Scenic River Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6825
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Dams and canals
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Nashua River Wild and Scenic River Act of 2018

 
This bill designates specified segments of the Nashua, Squannacook, and Nissitissit rivers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. The bill excludes from such designation certain areas with respect to the Ice House and Pepperell hydroelectric projects and the Hollingsworth and Vose dam. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
ASCEND Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6826
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Access to Sufficient Capital for Everyone in Natural Disaster areas Act of 2018 or the ASCEND Act of 2018

 
This bill makes Small Business Administration loans available to small business concerns, homeowners, nonprofit entities, and renters located in an area where a major disaster was declared by reason of by Hurricane Harvey, Irma, or Maria. The bill also revises collateral requirements for disaster loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
United States Territorial Relief Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6827
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Bankruptcy
Budget deficits and national debt
Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Disaster relief and insurance
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal district courts
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Judicial review and appeals
Jurisdiction and venue
Puerto Rico
Securities
State and local finance
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

United States Territorial Relief Act of 2018

 
This bill establishes a process under which Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories may terminate certain debts if they meet eligibility criteria. 
 
The bill allows territories to terminate their public, unsecured debt if they meet two of three criteria: 
 
 
the population of the territory has decreased by more than 5% over 10 years, 
 
the territory received major federal disaster assistance, and 
 
the territory's per capita debt exceeds $15,000. 
 
 
The bill also provides funding that a special master must allocate to certain creditors whose debts were discharged under this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and the Budget, 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: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and the Budget, 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: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and the Budget, 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: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Southeast Asia Strategy Act

Bill: 115-hr-6828
Sponsor: Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alliances
Asia
Brunei
Burma
Cambodia
Collective security
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Economic development
Human rights
Human trafficking
Indonesia
Infrastructure development
International organizations and cooperation
Laos
Malaysia
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Pacific Ocean
Philippines
Public-private cooperation
Rule of law and government transparency
Singapore
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Terrorism
Thailand
Transportation safety and security
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: 

Southeast Asia Strategy Act

 
This bill directs the Department of State to submit to Congress and update for the next four years a multi-year strategy for engagement with Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Francis Anwana.

Bill: 115-hr-6829
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2018-09-13 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Provides for the relief of Francis Anwana.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Impact Aid Infrastructure Act

Bill: 115-hr-6830
Sponsor: Rep. O'Halleran, Tom [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2018-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-17
text: 

Impact Aid Infrastructure Act

 
This bill authorizes additional grant funds to support the impact-aid construction program in federally impacted school districts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-17
text: Introduced in House