hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Executive Order Transparency Act

Bill: 115-hr-1287
Sponsor: Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government information and archives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 

Executive Order Transparency Act

 
This bill requires the President to publish an executive order on the White House website at least 72 hours before signing such order.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Early STEM Achievement Act

Bill: 115-hr-1288
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Preschool education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 

Early STEM Achievement Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Education to award competitive grants to eligible entities for the purpose of assisting early childhood education programs in carrying out science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and activities.
 
A grant recipient must use the grant for necessary materials and equipment or for specified activities related to professional development in early childhood STEM activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr., Social Work Reinvestment Act

Bill: 115-hr-1289
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Policy sciences
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 

Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young Jr., Social Work Reinvestment Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress and HHS on policy issues related to recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work.
 
In addition, HHS shall award specified grants to support grantees in carrying out workplace improvement programs to address concerns related to the social work profession.
 
HHS shall also award specified grants to support: (1) postdoctoral research in social work, (2) the recruitment and education of social work students in advanced degree programs and the professional development of social work faculty, and (3) the testing and replication of effective social work interventions.
 
HHS must contract with a national social work entity to serve as a coordinating center and clearinghouse.
 
In addition, HHS must develop and issue public service announcements that advertise and promote the social work profession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Improving Access to Mental Health Act

Bill: 115-hr-1290
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Nursing
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 

Improving Access to Mental Health Act

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) increase the Medicare reimbursement rate for clinical social worker services, (2) exclude clinical social worker services from the prospective payment system in which predetermined amounts form the basis for payment under Medicare, and (3) alter the definition of &ldquo;clinical social worker services&rdquo; as it relates to Medicare.
 
Under current law, &ldquo;clinical social worker services&rdquo;: (1) include services performed for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, and (2) exclude services furnished to an inpatient of a skilled nursing facility as a condition of the facility's participation in the Medicare program. The bill repeals these provisions and instead specifies that such services include certain types of health behavior assessment and intervention.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Washington, D.C. Admission Act

Bill: 115-hr-1291
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional districts and representation
Congressional elections
Constitution and constitutional amendments
District of Columbia
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 

Washington, D.C. Admission Act
 
 
 This bill provides for admission into the United States of the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. The Commonwealth shall be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other states. 
The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall issue a proclamation for the first elections to Congress of two Senators and one Representative of the Commonwealth. 
The Commonwealth shall consist of all Washington, DC territory as of enactment of this bill, with specified exclusions for federal buildings and monuments. 
The Commonwealth may not impose taxes on federal property except as Congress permits. 
The bill applies current DC laws to the Commonwealth and continues pending judicial proceedings. 
The bill maintains: (1) DC as the seat of the federal government, and (2) the federal government's authority over military lands and specified other property. 
The bill provides for expedited consideration of a joint resolution repealing the Twenty-Third Amendment to the Constitution (which provides for the appointment of electors for President and Vice President).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1524-1526)
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2017-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E261-262)
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
CAPTIVE Act

Bill: 115-hr-1292
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Foreign property
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 

Clarifying Amendment to Provide Terrorism Victims Equity Act or the CAPTIVE Act 

 
This bill amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow a person's court-awarded judgment against a terrorist party that is based on an act of terrorism to be satisfied with assets that the United States has seized or frozen from that terrorist party under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Under current law, assets seized or frozen under the Trading with the Enemy Act or the International Emergency Economic Powers Act are the only assets seized or frozen by the United States that may be used to satisfy such a person's judgment against a terrorist party.
 
The bill also narrows the categories of "persons" who may satisfy their judgments against terrorist parties with such seized or frozen assets to natural persons who, at the time the act of terrorism was committed upon which the judgment was obtained, were:
 
 
U.S. nationals;
 
members of the U.S. Armed Forces; or
 
otherwise employees of the federal government, or of a federal contractor, acting within the scope of employment.
 
 
If a person described is deceased, the personal representative of the estate of that deceased person shall count as the person.
 
The bill applies retroactively to judgments entered before its enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Respect for Peace Corps Volunteers Act

Bill: 115-hr-1295
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
National and community service
National symbols
Peace Corps

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 

Respect for Peace Corps Volunteers Act 

 
 This bill amends the Peace Corps Act to allow the official seal or emblem and the name "Peace Corps" to be used on any death announcement, plaque, grave stone, or other grave marker of a former volunteer, officer, or employee of the Peace Corps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide appropriate rules for the application of the deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities with respect to certain contract manufacturing or production arrangements.

Bill: 115-hr-1296
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computers and information technology
Contracts and agency
Department of the Treasury
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Sound recording
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify rules for applying the deduction for income from domestic production activities to contract manufacturing or production arrangements. 
 
In a contract manufacturing or production arrangement, a person contracts with one or more unrelated persons for the manufacture, production, growth, or extraction of an item of qualifying production property (tangible personal property, computer software, and sound recordings) or film. The qualifying production property must be manufactured, produced, grown, or extracted in whole or significant part within the United States.
 
In an arrangement in which any person makes a substantial contribution through the activities of its employees within the United States to the manufacture, production, growth, or extraction of qualifying production property: (1) the person shall be treated as engaging in the activity, and (2) the domestic production gross receipts of the person shall include the gross receipts received under the arrangement for the activities.
 
The Internal Revenue Service must prescribe regulations that include specified factors for determining a substantial contribution. 
 
A person with an economic risk of loss of more than 50% of the direct material costs necessary to the manufacture, production, growth, or extraction of the qualifying production is deemed to make a substantial contribution. 
 
The parties to an arrangement may agree in writing to: (1) make only one person eligible for the deduction, or (2) apply the rules retroactively to tax years in which only one person claimed the deduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1298
Sponsor: Rep. Wenstrup, Brad R. [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2017-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: 

CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act of 2017
 
 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) provide Medicare coverage for screening computed tomography colonography (CTC) as a colorectal cancer screening test, and (2) exclude screening CTC from a special Medicare payment rule applicable to certain imaging services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act

Bill: 115-hr-1299
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2017-03-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Honduras
Human rights
Judicial procedure and administration
Labor-management relations
Latin America
Law enforcement officers
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military civil functions
Military education and training
Multilateral development programs
News media and reporting
Protest and dissent
Rule of law and government transparency

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: 

Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act

 
This bill prohibits funds from being made available to Honduras for the police or military (including for equipment and training), and directs the Department of the Treasury to instruct U.S. representatives at multilateral development banks to vote against any loans for the police or military of Honduras, until the Department of States certifies that the government of Honduras has: 
 
 
prosecuted members of the military and police for human rights violations and ensured that such violations have ceased; 
 
established the rule of law and guaranteed a judicial system capable of bringing to justice members of the police and military who have committed human rights abuses; 
 
established that it protects the rights of trade unionists, journalists, human rights defenders, government critics, and civil society activists to operate without interference; 
 
withdrawn the military from domestic policing; and 
 
 brought to trial and obtained verdicts against those who ordered and carried out the attack on Felix Molina and the killings of Berta Caceres, Joel Palacios Lino, Elvis Armando Garcia, and over 100 small-farmer activists in the Aguan Valley.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Introduced in House
American Community Survey Act

Bill: 115-hr-1305
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2017-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: 

American Community Survey Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Commerce to include in instructions for completing any survey relating to the Census a statement that answering any questions other than questions that elicit the name of the respondent, contact information, the date of the response, or the number of people living or staying at the same address where the respondent resides is optional. No person may be fined or otherwise compelled to answer questions in connection with the survey commonly known as the American Community Survey (except for the questions permitted by this bill). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Public Option Deficit Reduction Act

Bill: 115-hr-1307
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2017-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: 

Public Option Deficit Reduction Act

 
This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to offer a public health insurance option that ensures choice, competition, and stability of affordable, high-quality coverage throughout the United States. The bill declares that HHS's primary responsibility is to create a low-cost plan without compromising quality or access to care.
 
The bill sets forth provisions related to the establishment and governance of the public health insurance option, including that plans under the option must: (1) be offered only through health insurance exchanges; (2) comply with requirements for plans offered through exchanges, including requirements related to benefits, benefit levels, provider networks, notices, consumer protections, and cost sharing; and (3) include plans with bronze, silver, and gold tier benefits.
 
HHS must: (1) establish an office of the ombudsman for the public health insurance option; (2) collect data to establish premiums and payment rates; (3) establish geographically adjusted premiums at a level sufficient to fully finance the costs of the health benefits provided, administrative costs, and a contingency margin; and (4) establish payment rates for health care providers at Medicare rates, with higher rates for the first three years.
 
The bill appropriates funding for the establishment of the public health insurance option. HHS must repay this amount over 10 years.
 
HHS may use innovative payment mechanisms and policies to determine payments for items and services under the public health insurance option.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Special Management Area Designation Act

Bill: 115-hr-1308
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2017-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Fishes
Forests, forestry, trees
Hunting and fishing
Oregon
Outdoor recreation
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: 

Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Special Management Area Designation Act
 
 
 This bill designates approximately 99,653 acres of Forest Service land in Oregon as the &quot;Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Special Management Area.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Introduced in House