hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
SAGA Act

Bill: 115-hr-3576
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Chris [R-NY-27]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Federal preemption
Firearms and explosives
Legal fees and court costs
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
State and local government operations
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Second Amendment Guarantee Act or the SAGA Act

 
This bill prohibits a state or local government from establishing a regulation, prohibition, or registration or licensing requirement with respect to a rifle or shotgun that is more restrictive (or that imposes a greater penalty) than federal law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Results Through Innovation Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3577
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Employment and training programs
Food assistance and relief
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Results Through Innovation Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require the Department of Agriculture to establish and carry out a program that provides grants on a competitive basis to states to carry out three-year projects to provide targeted employment and training services for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) beneficiaries or hard-to-serve populations such as homeless and recently incarcerated individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Expungement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3578
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Expungement Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish a process to expunge an individual's records related to a nonviolent criminal offense. A nonviolent criminal offense is a federal misdemeanor or felony offense that: (1) does not include, as an element, the use of a weapon or violence; and (2) does not involve violence in its commission.
 
To be eligible for expungement, an individual must: have no violent offense convictions and not more than one other nonviolent offense conviction; avoid drug or alcohol dependency or abuse; obtain a high school diploma; and fulfill the requirements of a court-ordered sentence, such as complete a prison term and meet the conditions of supervised release. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Act

Bill: 115-hr-3579
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Public Health Emergency Preparedness Act 

 
This bill provides $5 billion in supplemental appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Public Health Emergency Fund. 
 
The bill designates the funds as an emergency requirement, and provides that the funds are only available if the President subsequently designates the funds. (Emergency spending is exempt from discretionary spending limits and other budget enforcement rules.) 
 
HHS may use the funds provided by this bill to acquire products such as drugs, vaccines and other biological products, and medical devices for deposit into the Strategic National Stockpile. 
 
The bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt the Public Health Emergency Fund from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Student Athletes From Concussions Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3580
Sponsor: Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Neurological disorders
School administration
School athletics
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to condition each state's receipt of ESEA funds, beginning in FY2019, on the state's enforcement of specified minimum requirements for the prevention and treatment of concussions.
 
Each local educational agency must develop and implement a standard plan for concussion safety and management that includes: (1) the education of students, parents, and school personnel about concussions; (2) specified supports for each student recovering from a concussion; and (3) best practices designed to ensure the uniformity of safety standards, treatment, and management. 
 
Each public school must post on school grounds and publish on the school website specified information about concussions. 
 
If any public school personnel suspects that a student has sustained a concussion during a school-sponsored activity, the student must be immediately removed from participation in that activity and prohibited from participating in any school-sponsored athletic activities until the student submits a written release from a health care professional. Furthermore, the school personnel must report all available information regarding the injury to a concussion management team that will confirm and report details of the injury to the student's parents.
 
The school's concussion management team shall consult with and make recommendations to relevant school personnel and the student to ensure that the student is receiving the appropriate academic supports. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Pell Grant Flexibility Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3581
Sponsor: Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Pell Grant Flexibility Act of 201

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 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant awarded under the Higher Education Act of 1965. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
REGION Act

Bill: 115-hr-3582
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Appropriations
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Recognizing the Environmental Gains In Overcoming Negligence Act or the REGION Act

 
This bill prohibits funds made available for any fiscal year from being used to close, consolidate, or eliminate an office of the Environmental Protection Agency, including a regional or program office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2017-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2017-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction for attorney fees and costs in connection with civil claim awards.

Bill: 115-hr-3583
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Income tax deductions
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the deduction from gross income (above-the-line deduction) for attorney fees and court costs to include such fees and costs paid in connection with any legal action involving a civil claim (currently, limited to actions involving unlawful discrimination, the False Claims Act, and Medicare payments). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain credits against tax related to empowerment zones.

Bill: 115-hr-3584
Sponsor: Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economic development
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to empowerment zones, to: (1) extend the termination date for empowerment zone designations to December 31, 2020, and (2) allow nominations for existing zones to be amended to provide for the new termination date. 
 
(Empowerment zones are federally designated geographic areas where certain federal tax incentives and grants are allowed to increase investment and employment.) 
 
The bill also extends the $400 million annual limitation for qualified zone academy bonds to 2018, 2019, and 2020. (Under current law, the limit is zero after 2016 unless provisions permitting the carryover of unused limitation apply.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Wrongful Unmasking Prevention Act

Bill: 115-hr-3585
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Wrongful Unmasking Prevention Act

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish new criminal offenses: 
 
 
for knowingly making a request to unminimize (i.e., unmask) nonpublic information concerning a U.S. person to access classified information for a reason other than to understand or assess foreign intelligence information, or to determine whether classified information is evidence of a crime; and
 
for intentionally, knowingly, or negligently disclosing classified information to an unauthorized person.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Inspection Integrity Act

Bill: 115-hr-3586
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, A. Drew, IV [R-GA-3]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor-management relations
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Occupational Safety and Health Administration Inspection Integrity Act

 
This bill amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to revise requirements concerning workplace inspections conducted by the Department of Labor. Specifically, the bill prohibits an individual who is not an employee and does not represent the employees in a collective bargaining unit from serving as a representative of the employees for the purpose of accompanying a representative of Labor during an inspection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
BRIBE Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3587
Sponsor: Rep. Gomez, Jimmy [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Credit and credit markets
Financial services and investments
Foreign property
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Intellectual property
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Battling Russian Intelligence Baiting Efforts Act of 2017 or the BRIBE Act of 2017

 
This bill authorizes the intelligence community to collect and report on efforts by foreign powers to: (1) influence the President; Vice President; and family members of the President and Vice President, including in-laws; and (2) provide favorable treatment to the Trump Organization or other businesses or organizations with financial ties to the President, Vice President, and their families (covered businesses or organizations).
 
Attempts to influence and to provide favorable treatment include granting trademarks, providing favorable regulatory treatment, renting or buying properties owned or operated by covered businesses or organizations, investing in such organizations, and lending money to such businesses.
 
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) must assess such intelligence received within 30 days and then provide a report to the congressional intelligence committees about each assessment within 10 days. The ODNI must disclose to the congressional intelligence committees any intelligence related to foreign powers attempting to influence the Trump Administration that was obtained from January 19, 2017, through the date of the enactment of this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
RED SNAPPER Act

Bill: 115-hr-3588
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Garret [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Animal and plant health
Congressional oversight
Fishes
Florida
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Gulf of Mexico
Hunting and fishing
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mississippi
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Regionally Empowered Decision-making for Snapper, Noting the Angling Public and the Preservation of an Exceptional Resource Act or the RED SNAPPER Act

 
This bill requires any fishery management plan or regulation for red snapper fisheries that is submitted by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council to contain conservation and management measures that establish separate catch limits.
 
The bill gives Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (Gulf states) exclusive authority through FY2024 to establish the timing and duration of the fishing season for private recreational fishing of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico in the extended red snapper management zone of each Gulf state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-11-27
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 814.
action_date: 2018-11-27
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-1047.
action_date: 2018-11-27
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-1047.
action_date: 2017-12-13
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 16.
action_date: 2017-12-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-12-12
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-12-12
text: Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Discharged.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-08-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
COST Act

Bill: 115-hr-3589
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 

Cost of Services and Translations Act or the COST Act

 
This bill requires federal agency Chief Financial Officers to include multilingual services accounting information in their mandatory annual reports to the agency head and to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 
 
The bill defines &quot;multilingual services&quot; to include: (1) services provided by interpreters hired by an agency; (2) services resulting in additional expenses which an agency provides to assist its employees or contractors to learn a non-English language; (3) agency preparation, translation, printing, or recordation of materials in a language other than English; and (4) services provided or performed for the federal government by agency employees or contractors that require speaking a non-English language that result in wage differentials or benefits provided by the agency.
 
The bill requires the annual financial management status report of the OMB to certain congressional committees to contain a Multilingual Services Expenses Report that includes: (1) a summary and analysis of the multilingual services accounting information prepared by each agency Chief Financial Officer, and (2) a description of any changes to the existing financial management structure of the federal government needed to establish an integrated individual agency accounting of all multilingual services conducted by each agency.
 
The OMB shall issue guidance that an agency Chief Financial Officer must follow in compiling multilingual services accounting information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House