hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act

Bill: 115-s-657
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish a report at least every 10 years that contains physical activity recommendations for the general public based on the most current scientific and medical knowledge, including information for population subgroups, as needed.
 
HHS must publish updated reports that detail evidence-based practices and highlight continuing physical activity issues between the publications of full reports. Updated reports may focus on particular population subgroups or issues relating to physical activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Illegal Synthetic Drug Safety Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-658
Sponsor: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

Illegal Synthetic Drug Safety Act of 

2017

 
 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to modify the treatment of controlled substance analogues (i.e., substances that have substantially similar chemical structures and pharmacological effects to schedule I controlled substances).
 
Under current law, a controlled substance analogue that is intended for human consumption is treated as a schedule I controlled substance. This bill replaces the &quot;intended for human consumption&quot; qualifier with a &quot;not a chemical substance subject to the Toxic Substances Control Act&quot; qualifier. Specifically, a controlled substance analogue that is not a chemical substance under the Toxic Substances Control Act is treated as a schedule I controlled substance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Indian Education Act

Bill: 115-s-660
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

Native American Indian Education Act

 
 This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow the Department of Education, for FY2018-FY2022, to pay Native American-serving, nontribal institutions of higher education the tuition of their out-of-state Native American students. This applies only to schools that are required to provide a tuition-free education, with the support of their state, to Native American students as a condition under which the college or state received its original grant of land and facilities from the federal government. Payments are treated as reimbursements to institutions from their states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
CREATE Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-661
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Art, artists, authorship
Books and print media
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Community life and organization
Cultural exchanges and relations
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Treasury
Disaster relief and insurance
Economic development
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Foreign labor
Government lending and loan guarantees
Income tax deductions
Intellectual property
Literature
Music
National and community service
Performing arts
Property rights
Rural conditions and development
Self-employed
Small business
Tax-exempt organizations
Transfer and inheritance taxes
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

Comprehensive Resources for Entrepreneurs in the Arts to Transform the Economy Act of 2017 or the CREATE Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) set forth new tax rules for the deduction of charitable contributions of literary, musical, or artistic compositions; and (2) exclude gain from the sale of art works from the highest capital gains tax rate.
 
The bill amends the Small Business Act to require the Small Business Administration to develop loan criteria, evaluation procedures, and technical assistance programs for small business concerns owned and controlled by artists.
 
The bill amends other federal enactments to require: 
 
 
 business incubation and grant programs to support artists and the creative economy; 
 
the Department of Homeland Security to adjudicate nonimmigrant visas for artists and entertainers of extraordinary ability within 14 days; and 
 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide assistance for disaster-related expenses incurred by specified artists, designers, or musicians. 
 
The bill amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish an Artist Corps that identifies and meets unmet needs within communities through artistic activities.
 
The Department of the Treasury shall develop and promulgate guidelines for the creation and operation of qualified community development entities focusing on investment in the creative economy in low-income communities.
 
The Department of Commerce shall establish a demonstration program to promote creative and performing arts in the economic planning of local governments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
NO HATE Act

Bill: 115-s-662
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Hate crimes
Law enforcement administration and funding
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act of 2017 or the NO HATE Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue grants to states and local governments to assist in implementing the National Incident-Based Reporting System, including training employees in identifying hate crimes. A state or local government receiving such funding must provide DOJ, through the Uniform Crime Reporting system, information pertaining to hate crimes committed in that jurisdiction. A state or local government failing to provide the required data must repay the grants.
 
The bill directs DOJ to issue grants to states to create hate crime reporting hotlines.
 
The bill creates a cause of action for: (1) a victim of a crime motivated by actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin; and (2) a victim of a crime motivated by actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability, occurring in the special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States or affecting interstate commerce. Under both civil actions, the victims must demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that the crime was based on one of the classifications listed. A criminal prosecution need not be brought before a civil action can be filed.
 
A court imposing a penalty for a violation of the federal hate crime statute may order the defendant to participate in education classes or community service related to the community harmed by the defendant's offense as part of his or her supervised release.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Choice Program Resolution Act

Bill: 115-s-663
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Indian social and development programs
Minority health
Rural conditions and development
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

Veterans Choice Program Resolution Act

 
This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to direct the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to select from among employees of the Office of Inspector General a Choice Program Ombudsman to manage complaints about program hospital care and medical services.
 
The VA shall publish on publicly available Internet websites of the VA and the Office of Inspector General information regarding the process for submitting a complaint to the Ombudsman. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-664
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Lakes and rivers
Utah
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Act of 2016

 
This bill ratifies and modifies the Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Agreement negotiated between the Navajo Nation, the United States, and Utah. Specifically, the bill enumerates the Navajo Nation's right to use water from sources located within Utah and adjacent to or encompassed within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation Reservation. The use is limited to depletions of 81,500 acre-feet or less per year. The water rights: (1) include the rights to divert, pump, impound, store, or reuse water; and (2) are not subject to loss by non-use, forfeiture, or abandonment.
 
In return for confirmation of these rights, the Navajo Nation waives and releases: (1) claims for water rights that are not recognized in the agreement; and (2) claims for specified damage, loss, or injury to water, water rights, land, or other resources.
 
The Bureau of Reclamation must: (1) plan, design, and construct the water diversion, delivery, and conservation features of the Navajo water development projects; and (2) convey to the Navajo Nation title to certain water development projects described as water supply and water distribution systems once they are complete and in operation.
 The Department of the Interior must facilitate the formation of a project management committee. 
The bill establishes: (1) a trust account for the operation, maintenance, and replacement of the Navajo water development projects authorized to be constructed and described in the agreement as water supply systems and water distribution systems; and (2) a fund to plan, design, and construct the projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 706.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Hoeven with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 115-401.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Hoeven with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 115-401.
action_date: 2018-10-03
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-179.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Unleashing American Energy Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-665
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

Unleashing American Energy Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to conduct additional lease sales under an approved five-year oil and gas leasing program.
 
Additional lease sales shall not require the reapproval of a leasing program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the credit for production from advanced nuclear power facilities.

Bill: 115-s-666
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Nuclear power
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for the production of electricity from advanced nuclear power facilities, to: (1) establish requirements for the allocation of unutilized portions of the national megawatt capacity limitation, and (2) allow public entities to transfer the credit to project partners.
 
If a portion of the 6,000 national megawatt capacity limitation for the credit is unutilized after December 31, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service must allocate the unutilized capacity: (1) first to facilities that were placed in service on or before December 31, 2020, and did not receive an allocation equal to their full nameplate capacity; and (2) then to facilities placed in service after December 31, 2020, in the order in which the facilities are placed in service. The placed-in-service sunset date of January 1, 2021, does not apply to the allocations of unutilized national megawatt capacity. 
 
Qualified public entities may transfer the credit to an eligible project partner. A &quot;qualified public entity&quot; is: (1) a federal, state, or local government or any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof; (2) a mutual or cooperative electric company; or (3) a not-for-profit electric utility which has or had received a loan or loan guarantee under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. 
 
An &quot;eligible project partner&quot; includes any person who: (1) is responsible for, or is participating in, the design or construction of the facility; (2) participates in the provision of nuclear steam or nuclear fuel to the facility; or (3) has an ownership interest in the facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act

Bill: 115-s-667
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disaster relief and insurance
Higher education
Military civil functions
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 

Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act

 
This bill makes reserve component members who are deployed to support pre-planned operations of a combatant command eligible for: (1) pre-mobilization health care, (2) transitional health care, (3) consideration of active duty service to reduce the age for retired pay, (4) the high-deployment allowance for lengthy or numerous deployments and frequent mobilizations, (5) Post-9/11 educational assistance, and (6) non-reduction in pay while serving in the uniformed services or National Guard. 
 
The bill makes reserve component members who are deployed in response to a major disaster or emergency eligible for Post-9/11 educational assistance.
 
The bill makes all such reserve component members eligible for extension of the time limitation during deployment with respect to training and rehabilitation assistance for veterans with service-connected disabilities.
 
 This bill shall apply to any order issued on or after January 1, 2012, for a reserve component member to serve on active duty in support of a pre-planned operation of a combatant command or in response to a major disaster or emergency. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to nullify the effect of the recent Executive order regarding border security and immigration enforcement.

Bill: 115-s-668
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2017-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Detention of persons
Federal-Indian relations
Foreign aid and international relief
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: 
This bill rescinds Executive Order 13767, entitled &quot;Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements,&quot; effective as of January 25, 2017. 
 
Among the order's provisions concerning border security and immigration enforcement along the southern border of the United States are directives concerning physical barriers, detention facilities, additional Border Patrol agents, requirements for reporting on foreign aid to Mexico, and parole and asylum procedures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-670
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2017-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: 

Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to categorize certain hearing aids as over-the-counter hearing aids and issue regulations regarding those hearing aids. The regulations for over-the-counter hearing aids must: (1) provide reasonable assurances of safety and efficacy; (2) establish output limits and labeling requirements; and (3) describe requirements for the sale of hearing aids in-person, by mail, or online, without a prescription.
 
State and local governments may not establish or continue in effect requirements specifically applicable to hearing products that are not identical to FDA requirements and that restrict or interfere with the servicing or sale of over-the-counter hearing aids.
 
The FDA must update and finalize its draft guidance on hearing products. The guidance must clarify which products are medical devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Agriculture Students Encourage, Acknowledge, Reward, Nurture Act

Bill: 115-s-671
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2017-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural education
Income tax exclusion
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: 

Agriculture Students EARN Act or the Agriculture Students Encourage, Acknowledge, Reward, Nurture Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of a student farmer up to $5,000 of the gain from the sale or exchange of personal property (including livestock, crops, and agricultural mechanics or shop products) produced or raised by the student farmer. 
 
A student farmer is an individual who is under 19 years of age and is enrolled in: (1) a program established by the National FFA Organization; (2) a 4-H Club or other program established by 4-H; or (3) a student agriculture program that is under the direction or guidance of an agricultural educator, advisor, or club leader. 
 
To qualify for the exclusion, the production and sale or exchange of the property must be supervised by one of the specified agriculture programs. The sale or exchange must also occur during qualified public entertainment or convention and trade show activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-672
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2017-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
North Korea
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: 

North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017

 
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the government of North Korea should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism.
 
The Department of State shall submit to Congress a determination as to whether North Korea meets the criteria for designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Savings for Servicemembers Act

Bill: 115-s-673
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2017-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: 

Savings for Servicemembers Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from 100 miles to 50 miles the distance from home requirement for the tax deduction for the travel expenses of a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate