hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
BRAVE Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1212
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2017-02-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Disability and paralysis
Inflation and prices
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: 

Burial Rights for America's Veterans' Efforts Act of 2017 or the BRAVE Act of 2017
 
 
This bill increases the amounts payable through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) burial and funeral expenses of certain veterans, and (2) such expenses in connection with a veteran's death due to a service-connected disability. 
 
 The VA shall increase such amounts each fiscal year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: Introduced in House
Laquan McDonald Camera Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1213
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2017-02-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Photography and imaging

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: 

Laquan McDonald Camera Act of 2017

 
This bill requires state and local law enforcement agencies to require and enforce the use of body-worn and dashboard cameras, as an eligibility condition for a state to receive funds under Department of Justice (DOJ) grant programs that provide amounts for law enforcement purposes.
 
DOJ must reduce by 10% the allocation of grant funds for a state that fails to certify the full compliance of its state and local law enforcement agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-21
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Veterans From School Closures Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1216
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2017-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: 

Protecting Our Veterans From School Closures Act of 2017

 
This bill declares that if, as a result of a permanent school closure, a veteran is forced to discontinue a course or did not receive credit, or lost training time, toward completion of the education program, Department of Veterans Affairs educational assistance payments for such discontinued course or program shall not be: (1) charged against the individual's entitlement to educational assistance, or (2) counted against the aggregate period for which such assistance may be provided. 
 
The bill applies to courses and programs of education discontinued after August 1, 2016.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Librarian of Congress to obtain a stained glass panel depicting the seal of the District of Columbia and install the panel among the stained glass panels depicting the seals of States which overlook the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building.

Bill: 115-hr-1217
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Congressional agencies
District of Columbia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Library of Congress
National symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: 
This bill requires the Librarian of Congress, concurrently with the planned renovation and replacement of existing glass panels, to obtain a stained glass panel depicting the seal of the District of Columbia and install it among the panels depicting the seals of states which overlook the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2017-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2017-02-24
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2017-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act

Bill: 115-hr-1218
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2017-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: 

Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act

 
This bill establishes: (1) in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, a Social Security Surplus Protection Account; and (2) in the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, a Medicare Surplus Protection Account.
 
The Managing Trustee of each trust fund (in both cases, the Secretary of the Treasury): (1) must transfer the annual surplus of the trust fund to its respective account; and (2) may not invest the balance in the account until a law takes effect that authorizes, for amounts in the trust fund, an investment vehicle other than U.S. obligations.
 
The bill establishes in the executive branch a commission to study the most effective vehicles for investment of the trust funds, other than investments in the form of U.S. obligations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Adams Memorial Commission to carry out the provisions of Public Law 107-62, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-1220
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: District of Columbia
Monuments and memorials
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 
This bill amends the Act that authorized the Adams Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in Washington, DC, to honor John Adams and his legacy to, instead, establish the Adams Memorial Commission to establish a permanent memorial in DC for such purpose.
 
The commission shall: (1) consider, formulate, and report plans for such memorial; and (2) terminate seven years after this bill's enactment.

action_date: 2018-02-16
text: 
(Sec. 1) This bill amends the Act that authorized the Adams Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in Washington, DC, to honor John Adams and his legacy to, instead, establish the Adams Memorial Commission to establish a permanent memorial in DC for such purpose.
 
The commission shall: (1) consider, formulate, and report plans for such memorial; and (2) terminate seven years after this bill's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-07-23
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-07-23
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6623)
action_date: 2018-07-23
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6623)
action_date: 2018-07-23
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1220.
action_date: 2018-07-23
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6623-6624)
action_date: 2018-07-23
text: Mr. McClintock moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2018-02-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 427.
action_date: 2018-02-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-566.
action_date: 2018-02-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-566.
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Authorization Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1221
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Arab-Israeli relations
Economic development
Foreign aid and international relief
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Middle East
Multilateral development programs
Palestinians
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 

International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Authorization Act of 2017

 
 This bill urges the President to make every effort, in conjunction with the government of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the international community, to establish an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace to promote and support contact, cooperation, dialogue, shared community building, peaceful coexistence, joint economic development, and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
 
The bill authorizes appropriations for U.S. contributions to the fund following the committee of jurisdictions' agreement to the structure of the fund and its board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
OPEN Act

Bill: 115-hr-1223
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 

Orphan Products Extension Now Accelerating Cures and Treatments Act of 2017 or the OPEN Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to extend by six months the exclusivity period for a drug or biological product approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when the product is additionally approved to prevent, diagnose, or treat a new indication that is a rare disease or condition (also known as an orphan disease).
 
HHS may revoke an extension if the application submitted to the FDA for the new indication contained an untrue material statement.
 
HHS must notify the public of products that receive this extension and patents related to those products.
 
Products may receive only one extension under this bill. Extensions under this bill are in addition to other extensions.
 The bill applies only to products approved after enactment of this bill for a new indication that is a rare disease or condition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Edwin Cole "Ed" Bearss, in recognition of his contributions to preservation of American Civil War history and continued efforts to bring our nation's history alive for new generations through his interpretive storytelling.

Bill: 115-hr-1225
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Department of the Interior
Military history
Parks, recreation areas, trails
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 
This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal to Edwin Cole &quot;Ed&quot; Bearss in recognition of his contributions to the preservation of American Civil War history and his continued efforts to bring our nation's history alive for new generations through his interpretive storytelling. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1226
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Crimes against property
Europe
Germany
Historical and cultural resources
Human rights
Religion
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 

Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of State, with respect to covered countries, to annually include within either the relevant Annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices, the International Religious Freedom Report, or other appropriate report an assessment of the nature and extent of national laws or enforceable policies regarding the identification, return, or restitution of wrongfully seized or transferred Holocaust era assets and compliance with the goals of the Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues, including: 
 
 
the return to the rightful owner of wrongfully seized or transferred property, including religious or communal property, or the provision of comparable substitute property or the payment of equitable compensation to the rightful owner; 
 
the use of the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art and the Terezin Declaration in settling claims involving publicly and privately held movable property;
 
the restitution of heirless property to assist needy Holocaust survivors; and 
 
 progress on the resolution of claims for U.S. citizen Holocaust survivors and family members.
 
 
&quot;Covered countries&quot; means signatories to the Terezin Declaration that are determined by the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues to be countries of particular concern with respect to such restitution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1227
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Thomas A., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 

Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017
 
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that the Act's regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties do not apply to with respect to marijuana. 
It removes marijuana and tetrahydrocannabinols from schedule I. (A schedule I controlled substance is a drug, substance, or chemical that: has a high potential for abuse; has no currently accepted medical value; and is subject to regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act.) 
Additionally, it eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who imports, exports, manufactures, distributes, or possesses with intent to distribute marijuana. 
The bill does, however, make it a crime to knowingly ship or transport marijuana into a state where its receipt, possession, or sale is prohibited. A violator is subject to criminal penalties&#8212;a fine, a prison term of up to one year, or both.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force

Bill: 115-hr-1229
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Terrorism
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 

Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force

 
This bill declares that Congress finds that the Authorization for Use of Military Force (P.L. 107-40) has been used to justify an open-ended authorization for the use of military force and such an interpretation is inconsistent with the authority of Congress to declare war and make all laws for executing powers vested by the Constitution in the U.S. government.
 
The bill repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force, effective 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

Bill: 115-hr-1230
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 
This bill repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
RACE for Children Act

Bill: 115-hr-1231
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2017-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Child health
Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: 

Research to Accelerate Cures and Equity for Children Act or the RACE for Children Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to expand Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for sponsors of certain drugs and biological products for adult cancer to assess the use of their medications in pediatric populations. (Currently, applications for FDA approval of new medications or new uses of medications must include pediatric assessments of safety and effectiveness for claimed indications, with exceptions.) The pediatric assessment for medications, including orphan drugs, that are used to treat cancer in adults and target a molecule germane to pediatric cancer must assess the safety and effectiveness of the medication for pediatric cancer. The bill limits waivers of pediatric assessments for medications that target a molecule germane to a pediatric cancer for which there is a need for additional treatment options.
 
The FDA may require the sponsor of an approved medication that targets a molecule germane to pediatric cancer to complete a pediatric assessment if: (1) the medication is used for a substantial number of pediatric cancer patients, or (2) there is reason to believe the medication would have a meaningful therapeutic benefit over existing therapies for pediatric cancer patients.
 
The FDA committee that reviews requests for pediatric studies must implement a plan to achieve earlier submission of pediatric studies. (Currently, completion of pediatric clinical studies requested by the FDA extends the patents or marketing exclusivity period for a medication by six months, with exceptions.)
 The FDA must act within 120 days on proposed pediatric study requests and proposed amendments to requests. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-27
text: Introduced in House