hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
FRAC Act

Bill: 115-s-865
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Oil and gas
State and local government operations
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act or the FRAC Act 

 
This bill repeals the exemption for hydraulic fracturing operations relating to oil and natural gas production activities under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation.
 
The bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prescribe regulations that authorize a state to seek primary enforcement responsibility for hydraulic fracturing operations for oil and natural gas without seeking to assume primary enforcement responsibility for other types of underground injection control wells.
 
The chemicals intended for use in underground injections must be disclosed before the hydraulic fracturing operations commence. The chemicals actually used must also be disclosed at the end of the operations. The disclosure must be made to the state or, if the EPA has primary enforcement responsibility, to the EPA. The state or the EPA must ensure the accuracy and completeness of the disclosed information and make it available to the public.
 
When a medical emergency exists and the proprietary chemical formula of a chemical used in such hydraulic fracturing is necessary for medical diagnosis, treatment, or emergency response, hydraulic fracturing operations must disclose the formula or the specific chemical identity of a trade secret chemical to the state, the EPA, a first responder, or a health care practitioner upon request, regardless of the existence of a written statement of need or a confidentiality agreement. Hydraulic fracturing operations may require the execution of the statement and agreement as soon as practicable. First responders or health care practitioners may share any information disclosed with other persons if the information is medically necessary, but such personnel may not make the information publicly available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Prohibiting Detention of Youth Status Offenders Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-866
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Juvenile crime and gang violence

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Prohibiting Detention of Youth Status Offenders Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to modify the deinstitutionalization of status offenders (DSO) core requirement with which a state must comply to receive funds under the Formula Grant Program. The DSO core requirement prohibits the secure detention or confinement of a juvenile who commits a status offense (i.e., an offense that would not be a crime if committed by an adult).
 
This bill eliminates an exception to the DSO core requirement that permits the secure detention or confinement of an out-of-state runaway youth.
 
It also eliminates, not later than one year after enactment, an exception to the DSO core requirement that permits the secure detention or confinement of a juvenile status offender who violates a valid court order. Until then, use of the valid court order exception to securely detain or confine a juvenile status offender must comply with additional requirements, such as issuance of a written court order, a three-day maximum length of detention, and a plan for release.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2427-2428)
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Lifetime Income Disclosure Act

Bill: 115-s-868
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Lifetime Income Disclosure Act 

 
This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require pension benefit statements to include a lifetime income disclosure at least once during any 12-month period. 
 
The disclosure must set forth the lifetime income stream equivalent of the total benefits accrued with respect to the participant or beneficiary. The &quot;lifetime income stream equivalent of the total benefits accrued&quot; is the amount of monthly payments the participant or beneficiary would receive if the total accrued benefits were used to provide lifetime income streams based on certain assumptions, including that the participant or beneficiary has a spouse of equal age and a single life annuity. 
 
The Department of Labor must issue a model lifetime income disclosure, assumptions that plan administrators may use in converting total accrued benefits into lifetime income stream equivalents, and related rules. 
 
No plan fiduciary, sponsor, or other person may be liable under ERISA solely due to the provision of lifetime income stream equivalents derived in accordance with the assumptions and related rules issued by Labor, including explanations contained in the model lifetime income disclosure. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the violation of sovereign nations' laws and privacy matters.

Bill: 115-s-869
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Civil actions and liability
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to tax administration requirements for foreign-source income and assets, to repeal: (1) withholding requirements for payments to foreign financial institutions and other foreign entities, (2) information reporting for foreign financial assets, (3) penalties for underpayments of tax attributable to undisclosed foreign financial assets, (4) reporting requirements for shareholders of a passive foreign investment company and U.S. owners of foreign trusts, and (5) the additional penalty for failure to file required notices and information returns for certain foreign trusts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act

Bill: 115-s-871
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Coast guard
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Guard and reserves
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act

 
This bill provides appropriations for military pay and allowances during a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces. 
 
Under the bill, a &quot;funding gap&quot; is any period of time after the beginning of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year appropriations for the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted.
 
 If a funding gap occurs, the bill provides appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (in the case of the Coast Guard) to continue to provide pay and allowances (without interruption) to:
 
 
members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during the funding gap;
 
at the discretion of DOD, civilian DOD personnel who are providing support to the members of the Armed Forces who perform active service during the funding gap; and
 
at the discretion of DOD, personnel of DOD contractors who are providing direct support to the members of the Armed Forces who perform active service during the funding gap.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-872
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Rural Hospital Access Act of 2017

 
This bill permanently extends the Medicare-Dependent Hospital program (which provides increased payments to certain smaller, rural hospitals that serve a proportionally high number of Medicare patients) and the program for increased payments under Medicare for low-volume hospitals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
TSP Modernization Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-873
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 
 
TSP Modernization Act of 2017

 
This bill modifies the rules relating to withdrawals from the Thrift Saving Plan (TSP) accounts of former federal employees and Members of Congress. Under current law, such employees and Members may make only one partial withdrawal upon reaching age 59-1/2 while employed or one withdrawal after retirement. The bill permits an unlimited number of such withdrawals.
 
The bill also eliminates: (1) the withdrawal election deadline (i.e., by April 1 of the year after the year in which the plan participant turns 70-1/2 or is separated from service); and (2) the limitation on age-based in-service withdrawals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-08
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 260.
action_date: 2017-11-08
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment. With written report No. 115-183.
action_date: 2017-11-08
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment. With written report No. 115-183.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
At-Risk Youth Medicaid Protection Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-874
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

At-Risk Youth Medicaid Protection Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to specify that a state Medicaid program may not terminate a juvenile's medical assistance enrollment because the juvenile is incarcerated. A state may suspend enrollment while the juvenile is an inmate, but must restore enrollment upon release without requiring a new application or any other action unless the individual no longer meets the eligibility requirements for medical assistance.
 
A state must process an application submitted by, or on behalf of, an incarcerated juvenile, notwithstanding that the juvenile is an inmate.
 
A "juvenile" is an individual who: (1) is under 21 years of age; or (2) has aged out of the state's foster care system, was enrolled in the state plan while in foster care, and is under 26 years of age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Adoption Parity Act

Bill: 115-s-876
Sponsor: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Disability and paralysis
Income tax credits
Indian social and development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

 Tribal Adoption Parity Act
 
 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow Indian tribal governments to determine whether a child has special needs for the purposes of the adoption tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Student Privacy Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-877
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Right of privacy
School administration
Student records

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Protecting Student Privacy Act of
 
2017

 
This bill amends the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit programs administered by the Department of Education from making funds available to any educational agency or institution that has not implemented information security policies that: (1) protect personally identifiable information (PII) from education records, and (2) require each outside party to whom PII from education records is disclosed to have a comprehensive security program to protect such information.
 
An &quot;outside party&quot; is defined as a person that is not an employee, officer, or volunteer of the educational agency or institution or of a government agency. The term includes any contractor or consultant acting as a school official or authorized representative or in any other capacity.
 
 The bill prohibits such funds from being made available to any educational agency or institution that has a policy or practice of using, releasing, or providing access to PII to advertise or market a product or service.
 
State agencies receiving such funds, and each educational agency or institution, must ensure that any outside party with access to such records: (1) provides parents access to any PII it holds about their students; (2) provides a process to challenge, correct, or delete any inaccurate, misleading, or inappropriate data through a hearing by the agency or institution providing the outside party with access; (3) maintains a record of all individuals, agencies, or organizations that have requested or obtained access to the education records of a student; and (4) has information security procedures in place.
 
The bill prohibits funds from being made available to any educational agency or institution, or any state educational agency, unless the agency or institution has a practice that: (1) promotes data minimization by meeting requests for student information with non-PII; and (2) requires that PII held by any outside party be destroyed when the information is no longer needed for the specified purpose.
 
Educational agencies and institutions must maintain a record of all outside parties that request or obtain access to a student's education records. Such a record must describe the information shared and indicate specifically the party's legitimate interest in obtaining this information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish privacy protections for customers of broadband Internet access service and other telecommunications services.

Bill: 115-s-878
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Computer security and identity theft
Consumer affairs
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 
This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate customer privacy regulations that require telecommunications services, broadband Internet access services, and interconnected VoIP services to:
 
 
notify a customer about the collection, use, and sharing of customer proprietary information that is individually identifiable customer proprietary network information, personally identifiable information, or the content of communications; 
 
obtain opt-in approval from a customer to use and share sensitive customer proprietary information about financial or health information, children, Social Security numbers, precise geolocation, content of communications, call detail information, web browsing or application usage history, or other customary proprietary information that the FCC determines to be sensitive; 
 
not refuse to serve a customer who does not consent to the use and sharing of customer proprietary information for commercial purposes under a "take-it-or-leave-it" offer; 
 
develop data security practices; and 
 
notify customers of security breaches. 

 
The FCC must also implement strong protection for de-identified customary proprietary information to prevent re-identifying such information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-879
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Ecology
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Pest management
Water quality
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Forest Service to prioritize and carry out ecosystem restoration projects on National Forest System (NFS) land to accomplish one or more of the objectives specified in this bill, which include restoring terrestrial habitat, carrying out a needed timber stand improvement, reducing the risk or extent of insect or disease infestation, or reducing wildland fire severity potential. 
 
 The Forest Service may not carry out an ecosystem restoration project on any area of NFS land in the National Wilderness Preservation System or on which removal of vegetation is prohibited by law. 
 
 The Forest Service must accomplish restoration treatments throughout the NFS on 1 million acres using certain mechanical treatment methods and on another 1 million acres using prescribed fire. 
 
 The Forest Service shall prepare an environmental assessment in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for each ecosystem restoration project that accomplishes objectives of this bill. 
 
 The Forest Service shall study and describe in each ecosystem restoration project both the proposed action and a no-action alternative.
 
 The Forest Service shall establish an arbitration program as an alternative dispute resolution process in lieu of judicial review for specified types of ecosystem restoration projects. 
 
A categorical exclusion is made available to the Forest Service for certain forest management activities in order to: (1) expedite specified critical response actions, (2) expedite salvage operations in response to catastrophic events, and (3) meet forest plan goals for early successional forests. 
 
For each forest management activity covered by a categorical exclusion granted by this bill, the Forest Service shall satisfy the interagency consultation obligations under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 by achieving compliance with certain alternative consultation procedures established by federal regulation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Made in America Water Infrastructure Act

Bill: 115-s-880
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Manufacturing
Metals
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Made in America Water Infrastructure Act

 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring all of the iron and steel products used in projects funded by the drinking water state revolving fund program to be produced in the United States, unless: (1) it would be inconsistent with the public interest, (2) iron and steel products are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality, or (3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced in the United States will increase the cost of the overall project by more than 25%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate