hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
INFORM Act

Bill: 115-hr-3421
Sponsor: Rep. Bucshon, Larry [R-IN-8]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government information and archives
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Motor vehicles
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Increasing Information and Notification to Foster Openness Regarding Highly Automated Vehicle Matters to States Act or the INFORM Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to establish a publicly available electronic database of exemptions from motor vehicle safety or bumper standards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Interstate Teaching Mobility Act

Bill: 115-hr-3422
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Employee performance
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Interstate Teaching Mobility Act

 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a voluntary interstate teaching application program for participating states. To participate in the program, a state must require sufficiently rigorous assessments in awarding a teaching license or certification.
 
In carrying out the program, the Department of Education shall:
 
 
create an electronic application process for eligible teachers who are licensed or certified in a participating state to apply for teaching positions in another participating state; 
 
require a participating state to recognize the teaching licensure or certification of each such teacher without the teacher having to complete additional licensure or certification requirements; 
 
ensure that a participating state maintains specified eligibility requirements; and 
 
provide technical assistance.

 
A teacher seeking to participate in the program must submit an application containing: (1) proof of active licensure or certification in a participating state, and (2) the teacher's results on specified assessments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1059-1060)
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Commission Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3423
Sponsor: Rep. Delaney, John K. [D-MD-6]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Government trust funds
Legislative rules and procedure
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Social Security Commission Act of 2017 

 
This bill temporarily establishes, within the legislative branch, the Commission on Long Term Social Security Solvency. The commission must submit to Congress recommendations and proposed legislation for achieving, for a period of at least 75 years, solvency in both of the Social Security trust funds.
 
The bill provides for expedited consideration of proposed legislation recommended by the commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
State Sanctions Against Iranian Terrorism Act

Bill: 115-hr-3425
Sponsor: Rep. DeSantis, Ron [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Intergovernmental relations
Iran
Legislative rules and procedure
Middle East
Sanctions
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Trade restrictions
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

State Sanctions Against Iranian Terrorism Act

 
This bill amends the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 to specify that a state may, in addition to limiting investment in Iran's energy sector, prohibit or limit any person from engaging in specified investment activities in Iran. A state may also enter into interstate compacts to prohibit or limit such financial activities.
 
Enforcement of such measures may include the imposition of disclosure and transparency requirements.
 
 The description of &quot;investment activities&quot; is revised to: (1) reduce the threshold for financial involvement from $20 million to $10 million; and (2) include, in addition to the energy sector, involvement in a business enterprise in Iran, including an entity owned or controlled by the Iranian government.
 
The bill declares that a state or local government measure authorized pursuant to the bill is: (1) authorized and not preempted by any federal law or regulation, or any policy, agreement, or exercise of waiver authority of the executive branch; and (2) is consistent with U.S. federal policy, including U.S. foreign policy.
 
A state or local government may enforce a measure adopted before the enactment of this bill that: (1) provides for the divestment of state or local assets from, or prohibits the investment of those assets in, any person that engages in investment activities in Iran or other business activities in Iran identified in the measure; or (2) prohibits or limits any person from engaging in investment activities in Iran.
 
 State and local government authority to divest from certain companies that invest in Iran shall not terminate pursuant to a presidential certification if Congress, not later than 60 days after the date on which the President submits such certification, enacts a joint resolution disapproving such certification. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Hearing Aid Coverage Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3426
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Medicare Hearing Aid Coverage Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow Medicare coverage of hearing aids and related examinations.
 
The Government Accountability Office must study programs that provide assistance for hearing aids and related examinations for individuals with hearing loss.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-07-26
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: 2017-07-26
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: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3427
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intellectual property
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2017

 
This bill requires each federal agency with extramural research expenditures of over $100 million to develop a federal research public access policy that is consistent with, and that advances, the purposes of the agency and that follows common procedures for the collection and depositing of research papers. 
 
Each federal research public access policy is applicable to: (1) researchers employed by the federal agency whose works remain in the public domain, and (2) researchers funded by the agency. The bill specifies exclusions.
 
Each federal agency must submit an annual report on its federal research public access policy to specified congressional committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
APP Act

Bill: 115-hr-3428
Sponsor: Rep. Emmer, Tom [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computers and information technology
General Services Administration
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Science and engineering education
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Advancing and Promoting Programming or the APP Act

 
This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to establish a publicly available website that includes a database of federal funding opportunities for the creation of apps (software applications that enable the performance of specific tasks that may be run on a computer, a mobile device, the Internet, or any other electronic device) and allows the public to download a federal government app that includes:
 
 
a list of each funding source for the creation and maintenance of government apps and instructions on how an applicant may apply for such funding;
 
the ability for the public to rate and review any such app;
 
a page that prominently displays apps that have been recently updated or that receive a high user review average;
 
a page that features government projects that provide application developers with tools to improve private apps;
 
resources for education and training related to the creation of apps; and 
 
a page that features outstanding, educational, computer science programs and resources to replicate such programs. 
 
 
 The GSA shall review any app for which an update has not been released in more than two years and shall remove any app from the website that is no longer functional or compatible. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
SHARES Act

Bill: 115-hr-3430
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Computers and information technology
Department of Transportation
Executive agency funding and structure
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Motor vehicles
Product safety and quality
Technology assessment
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Sharing Automated Vehicle Records with Everyone for Safety Act or the SHARES Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) a Highly Automated Vehicle Information Sharing Advisory Council. The council shall undertake information gathering activities, develop technical advice, and present best practices or recommendations to DOT regarding the development of a framework to allow manufacturers of highly automated vehicles to share with each other and NHTSA relevant situational information related to any testing or deployment event on public streets resulting in damage to the vehicle or vehicle occupant and validation of such vehicles in a manner that does not risk public disclosure of such information or disclosure of confidential business information.
 
A &quot;highly automated vehicle&quot; is defined as a motor vehicle (excluding a commercial motor vehicle) equipped with an automated driving system. 
 
An &quot;automated driving system&quot; is defined as the hardware and software that are collectively capable of performing the entire dynamic driving task on a sustained basis, regardless of whether such system is limited to a specific operational design domain. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the volumetric excise tax credit for liquid fuel derived from natural gas through the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Bill: 115-hr-3431
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an alternative fuel excise tax credit for liquid fuel derived from natural gas through the Fischer-Tropsch process. The Fischer-Tropsch process is a collection of chemical reactions that converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Travel Reimbursement Reform Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3432
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Disability assistance
Government trust funds
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Social Security Travel Reimbursement Reform Act of 2017

 
This bill removes representatives of claimants for Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits from the list of individuals for whom certain travel expenses must be reimbursed using Social Security trust funds. The Social Security Administration may authorize such a representative's travel expenses to instead be reimbursed by the claimant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Feeding America through Farm Flexibility Act of 2017'

Bill: 115-hr-3433
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Fruit and vegetables
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Feeding America through Farm Flexibility Act of 201

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This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to increase the number of acres on which agricultural producers are authorized to grow fruits and vegetables without a resulting reduction in the payment acres used to calculate price loss coverage and agriculture risk coverage payments.
 
The increases are permitted if the crops on the additional acres are grown for sale or donation in a food desert, which is a census tract that: (1) has a poverty rate of at least 20%, and (2) provides difficult access to a retail outlet that provides a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3434
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax rates
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 201

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This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States). The bill provides that a foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership after May 8, 2014, shall be treated as an inverted corporation and thus subject to U.S. taxation if, after such acquisition: (1) it holds more than 50% of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group), or (2) the management or control of the new entity occurs primarily within the United States and the new entity has significant domestic business activities.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the transportation of certain volatile crude oil by rail.

Bill: 115-hr-3435
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Oil and gas
Railroads
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 
This bill prohibits any transportation by rail of crude oil with a Reid vapor pressure level greater than 8.5 psi until the Department of Transportation (DOT) establishes an appropriate national standard for the maximum volatility of crude oil permitted to be shipped by rail.
 
DOT shall establish such a national standard, after which the 8.5 psi standard required by this bill shall expire.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Southwest Border Security Threat Assessment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3436
Sponsor: Rep. McSally, Martha [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Homeland Security
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Federal-Indian relations
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Human trafficking
Intergovernmental relations
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
Organized crime
Smuggling and trafficking
State and local government operations
Terrorism
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

Southwest Border Security Threat Assessment Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit a southwest border threat analysis that includes an assessment of:
 
 
terrorism and criminal threats posed by individuals and organized groups seeking to unlawfully enter the United States through the southwest border or seeking to exploit security vulnerabilities along such border; 
 
improvements needed at and between ports of entry to prevent terrorists and instruments of terror from entering the United States; 
 
gaps in law, policy, and coordination that hinder effective and efficient border security, counterterrorism, anti-human smuggling and trafficking efforts; 
 
the flow of legitimate trade along the southwest border; 
 
the current percentage of situational awareness and of operational control achieved by DHS along the southwest border; 
 
the impact of trusted traveler programs on border wait times and border security; and 
 
traveler crossing times and any potential security vulnerability associated with prolonged wait times. 

 
The bill requires the Border Patrol, within 180 days after submission of the threat analysis and every five years thereafter, to issue a Border Patrol Strategic Plan that includes consideration of such analysis and other specified factors, including: 
 
 
efforts to increase situational awareness, to detect and prevent terrorists and instruments of terrorism from entering the United States, and to detect, interdict, and disrupt aliens and illicit drugs at the earliest possible point upon entry into the United States; 
 
staffing requirements; and 
 
assessments of training programs for detecting fraudulent documents and of how border security operations affect crossing times. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-08-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
TANF Accountability and Integrity Improvement Act

Bill: 115-hr-3437
Sponsor: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: 

TANF Accountability and Integrity Improvement Act

 

 
This bill restricts states from counting certain third-party contributions or other specified expenditures as state spending for purposes of maintenance-of-effort requirements under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-26
text: Introduced in House