hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Protect and Grow American Jobs Act

Bill: 115-hr-170
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Employee hiring
Foreign labor
Inflation and prices
Visas and passports
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Protect and Grow American Jobs Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise the definition of &quot;exempt H-1B nonimmigrant&quot; to eliminate the masters or higher degree requirement and raise the annual salary threshold requirement from $60,000 to $100,000. 
 
(An exempt H-1B nonimmigrant is a nonimmigrant H-1B [specialty occupation] worker meeting certain criteria whom an H-1B dependent employer may hire without having to satisfy certain otherwise applicable H-1B hiring criteria. An H-1B dependent employer is generally one whose H-1B workers comprise 15% or more of the employer's total workforce, with different thresholds applying to smaller employers.)
 
The bill requires an inflation adjustment to the salary threshold every third fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Bill: 115-hr-171
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Military command and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill redesignates: (1) the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps, and (2) the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. The bill makes similar redesignations with respect to the Department Under Secretary, the Department Assistant Secretaries, and the General Counsel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment.

Bill: 115-hr-172
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
First Amendment rights
Religion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the prohibition against churches and other tax-exempt organizations participating in political campaigns or supporting or opposing candidates for public office. The bill specifies that provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 are not invalidated or limited by the repeal. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-173
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, beginning with taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, the excise tax on employer-sponsored health care coverage for which there is an excess benefit (high-cost plans). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Sarah's Law

Bill: 115-hr-174
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Crime victims
Criminal justice information and records
Detention of persons
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Sarah's Law

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the detention of an alien: (1) who was not inspected and admitted into the United States, who held a revoked nonimmigrant visa (or other nonimmigrant admission document), or who is deportable for failing to maintain nonimmigrant status; and (2) who has been charged in the United States with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person.
 
 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall make reasonable efforts to: 
 
 
obtain information about the identity of any victims of the crimes for which such alien was charged or convicted; and 
 
 provide the victim, or a parent, guardian, spouse, or closest living relative of a deceased victim, with information about such alien, including name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status, criminal history, and a description of any related removal efforts.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To bar Supreme Court decisions in certain Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cases from citation.

Bill: 115-hr-177
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill bars the Supreme Court from citing for the purpose of precedence [
sic
] in all future cases the following Supreme Court decisions concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
 
 

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
, 
 

King v. Burwell
, and 
 

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc
.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Religious Worker Visa Reciprocity Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-178
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign labor
Human rights
Immigration status and procedures
Religion
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Religious Worker Visa Reciprocity Act of 2017

 
 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit, as of October 1, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from approving a petition for classification of an alien as a special immigrant religious worker/minister if DHS has determined that the alien's country of nationality: 
 
 
is identified as a Country of Particular Concern or a country where religious freedom is of significant interest in the 2013 International Religious Freedom Report, or 
 
does not extend reciprocal immigration treatment to U.S. nationals who are seeking resident status in order to work in a religious vocation or occupation.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to eliminate the requirement for 3 months of retroactive coverage under the Medicaid program.

Bill: 115-hr-180
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the requirement for up to three months of retroactive coverage under Medicaid. 
 
Under current law, a state Medicaid program must provide coverage for up to three months prior to an individual's application for benefits if the individual would have been eligible for benefits during that period. The bill eliminates this requirement and instead specifies that coverage begins in the month during which the individual applies for benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to count portions of income from annuities of a community spouse as income available to institutionalized spouses for purposes of eligibility for medical assistance, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-181
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to count as available income, for purposes of determining the Medicaid eligibility of an institutionalized individual, portions of certain annuity income made in the name of the individual's spouse.
 
The bill does not apply to annuity income from specified pensions and retirement accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-07
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 13 .
action_date: 2017-02-07
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Stop Obamacare Spam Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-182
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Marketing and advertising
State and local government operations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Stop Obamacare Spam Act of 2017

 This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from using collected fees to advertise health insurance exchanges.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the equitable settlement of certain Indian land disputes regarding land in Illinois, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-183
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Jurisdiction and venue
Oklahoma
Specialized courts

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill confers exclusive jurisdiction to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma's land claim arising under the Treaty of Grouseland. The court must render judgement without regard to defenses based on the passage of time, including the statute of limitations. The United States is the only entity liable for such a claim and monetary damages are the only available remedy. This jurisdiction expires unless such a claim is filed within one year of enactment of this bill.
 All other claims of the tribe to title arising under the Treaty of Grouseland are extinguished.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-184
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Protect Medical Innovation Act of 201

7

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on the sale of a medical device by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. 

action_date: 2018-07-24
text: 

Protect Medical Innovation Act of 201

8

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on the sale of a medical device by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-26
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 528.
action_date: 2018-07-25
text: Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 283 - 132 (Roll no. 372). (text: CR H7119)
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 283 - 132 (Roll no. 372).(text: CR H7119)
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7124-7125)
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 184, the Chair put the question on passage, and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Paulsen demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of passage until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 184.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 184 and H.R. 6311. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 184 and H.R. 6311 both under closed rules. The rule provides for one motion to recommit with or without instructions on each measure.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 1011. (consideration: CR H7119-7124)
action_date: 2018-07-23
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 1011 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 184 and H.R. 6311. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 184 and H.R. 6311 both under closed rules. The rule provides for one motion to recommit with or without instructions on each measure.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Territorial Economic Growth and Recovery Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-185
Sponsor: Del. Plaskett, Stacey E. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages
Caribbean area
Guam
Income tax credits
Northern Mariana Islands
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
Sales and excise taxes
Tax treatment of families
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Territorial Economic Growth and Recovery Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the limitation on the amount of distilled spirits excise taxes covered over (paid into) to the treasuries of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. 
 
If Puerto Rico or the Northern Mariana Islands has a tax system that mirrors federal tax law (mirror code tax system), the Department of the Treasury must pay each possession amounts equal to the loss to the possession due to the application of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). 
 
If the possession does not have a mirror code tax system, Treasury must pay to the possession an amount equal to the aggregate benefits that would have been provided to residents of the possession by applying the EITC if a mirror code tax system had been in effect. To receive the payments, the possession must have a plan approved by Treasury to distribute the payments to the residents of the possession. 
 
Treasury must pay to the Virgin Islands and Guam amounts equal to the aggregate loss to the Virgin Islands or Guam due to the Child Tax Credit. 
 
The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries must submit to Treasury's Office of Domestic Finance recommendations for actions that would be necessary to ensure that the public pension plans of the Virgin Islands can be sustainably maintained and funded by the government of the Virgin Islands for the next 20 years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
United States Virgin Islands College Access Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-186
Sponsor: Del. Plaskett, Stacey E. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
 
United States Virgin Islands College Access Act of 

2017

 
This bill directs the U.S. Virgin Islands to award grants to public four-year institutions of higher education (IHEs) located in a state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or Guam to cover the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees for students who have: (1) been domiciled in the Virgin Islands for at least the 12 months preceding their enrollment in the IHE; and (2) received on or after January 1, 2013, a secondary school diploma or its equivalent while domiciled there.
 
 The Government Accountability Office must monitor the program's effectiveness in expanding educational opportunities for such students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Virgin Islands Visa Waiver Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-187
Sponsor: Del. Plaskett, Stacey E. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Caribbean area
Cayman Islands
Department of Homeland Security
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Haiti
Immigration status and procedures
Jamaica
Latin America
Montserrat
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Virgin Islands Visa Waiver Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a visa waiver program for the United States Virgin Islands for individuals who are a national of a country that is a member or an associate member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) listed in regulations under this Act and who apply for admission as a nonimmigrant business or pleasure visitor solely for entry into and stay in the United States Virgin Islands for not more than 30 days, if the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) determines that such waiver does not represent a threat to the welfare or security of the United States or its territories and commonwealths.
 
DHS shall suspend the admission of nationals of a country if DHS determines that: (1) such admissions have resulted in an unacceptable number of visitors remaining unlawfully in the United States Virgin Islands, unlawfully obtaining entry to other parts of the United States, or seeking withholding of removal or asylum; or (2) visitors from such country pose a risk to law enforcement or security interests of the United States Virgin Islands or of the United States. 
 
DHS is authorized to suspend the program at any time, on a country-by-country basis, for other good cause.
 
The bill provides for the addition of program countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend to 2027 the production certificate program that allows refunds of duties on certain articles produced in United States insular possessions.

Bill: 115-hr-188
Sponsor: Del. Plaskett, Stacey E. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariffs
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 
This bill amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend through 2027 the production certificate program requiring the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior to jointly issue to producers of watches and watch movements in the U.S. insular possessions production certificates entitling the certificate holders to a refund of duties paid on such articles imported into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Territorial Tax Parity Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-189
Sponsor: Del. Plaskett, Stacey E. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Territorial Tax Parity Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the income source rules involving U.S. possessions, including Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. 
 
Under current law, income is not considered to be possession source income if it is treated as income: (1) from sources within the United States, or (2) effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States. The bill amends this rule to specify that it applies to the extent that the income is attributable to an office or fixed place of business within the United States. 
 
The bill also revises the source rules for personal property sales. The Internal Revenue Service may limit the application in the Virgin Islands of requirements for U.S. citizens and resident aliens to pay a tax to a foreign country to be considered a nonresident of the United States for certain personal property sales. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House