hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Ports-to-Plains Highway Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7151
Sponsor: Rep. Arrington, Jodey C. [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Colorado
Infrastructure development
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Roads and highways
Texas
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Ports-to-Plains Highway Act of 2020

 
This bill expands and designates certain route segments on the National Highway System.
 
Specifically, the bill (1) designates the portion of the Heartland Expressway (relating solely to the portion from Limon, Colorado to Interstate Route I-76 in the vicinity of Brush, Colorado) and the Ports-to-Plains Corridor as future parts of the Interstate System; and (2) permits the continued operation of vehicles on any segment of the Heartland Expressway (relating solely to the portion from Limon, Colorado to I-76 in the vicinity of Brush, Colorado) and the Ports-to-Plains Corridor that is designated as a route on the Interstate System in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico, without regard to vehicle weight limitation requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Reopen Our Schools Act

Bill: 116-hr-7152
Sponsor: Rep. Banks, Jim [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Infectious and parasitic diseases
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Reopen Our Schools Act

 
This bill generally prohibits a school or educational agency from receiving certain federal funds unless it provides a certification to the Department of Education (ED) related to resuming in-person instruction.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits an elementary or secondary school, institution of higher education, or local or state educational agency from receiving federal funds for the 2020-2021 school year unless the school or educational agency certifies to ED that it (1) will begin providing in-person instruction by September 8, 2020; and (2) has a detailed plan to protect the health of students and staff. However, ED may waive this requirement.
 
Further, neither a school or educational agency that provides such a certification nor its employees may be held liable for in-person instruction that results in an alleged exposure to the coronavirus (i.e., the virus that causes COVID-19 or another coronavirus with pandemic potential).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Identification Act

Bill: 116-hr-7153
Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Military personnel and dependents
Protest and dissent

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Law Enforcement Identification Act

 
This bill requires federal law enforcement officers and members of the Armed Forces engaged in crowd control, riot control, or arrest or detainment of individuals engaged in an act of civil disobedience, demonstration, protest, or riot to display clearly visible identifying information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Outpatient Therapy Modernization and Stabilization Act

Bill: 116-hr-7154
Sponsor: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Home and outpatient care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Medicare
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Outpatient Therapy Modernization and Stabilization Act

 
This bill modifies payment and funding for certain outpatient therapy services under Medicare. 
 
Among other things, the bill specifically includes physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and other specified practitioners who are enrolled as Medicare suppliers as eligible suppliers who may receive COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) relief funds under the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund. 
 
The bill also permanently allows physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists to provide telehealth services under Medicare, and includes specified therapy services as eligible Medicare telehealth services. (Currently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is authorized to waive requirements for Medicare telehealth services during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19, and it has done so to allow all providers that are otherwise eligible to furnish in-person services under Medicare to also furnish telehealth services.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
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: 2020-06-11
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: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on Modernizing Military Installation Designations Act

Bill: 116-hr-7155
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alabama
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Georgia
Government studies and investigations
Louisiana
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
North Carolina
Texas
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

National Commission on Modernizing Military Installation Designations Act 

 
This bill establishes in the executive branch the National Commission on Modernizing Military Installation Designations, an independent commission charged with reviewing the designations (i.e., names) of certain military installations and other property of the Department of Defense (DOD).
 
Specifically, the commission must review the designations of the following military installations: (1) Camp Beauregard, Louisiana; (2) Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia; (3) Fort Benning, Georgia; (4) Fort Bragg, North Carolina; (5) Fort Gordon, Georgia; (6) Fort Hood, Texas; (7) Fort Lee, Virginia; (8) Fort Pickett, Virginia; (9) Fort Polk, Louisiana; (10) Fort Rucker, Alabama; (11) the U.S.S. 
Chancellorsville
; and (12) any other military base or property as the commission determines appropriate.
 
In conducting its review, the commission must consider whether current designations represent the values enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and whether a designation features certain other characteristics (e.g., honoring careers or actions that were important to, and well known in, the locality or function to be memorialized). 
 
The commission must produce reports with any recommendations for action by the executive branch and Congress related to each military installation. 
 
Not later than 30 days after the submission of the recommendations in the final report, DOD must redesignate the military installations with such designations as determined by the commission.
 
The commission shall terminate not later than 30 days after submitting the final versions of its reports and recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
SERVICE Act

Bill: 116-hr-7156
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Minority education
Public-private cooperation
Science and engineering education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

STEM Education and Recruitment by Valuing Increased Community Engagement Act of 2020 or the SERVICE Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to promote interest in careers in STEM disciplines, including to maximize strategic partnerships between institutions of higher education and private sector organizations to build and strengthen communities involved in such disciplines.
 
The term 
STEM disciplines
 means disciplines relating to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, including disciplines that are critical to the national security functions of DOD and that are needed in the DOD workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
FLIGHT Act

Bill: 116-hr-7157
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Military education and training
Minority education
Student aid and college costs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Fostering Leadership and Inclusion by Growing HBCU Training Act of 2020 or the FLIGHT Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense to carry out five-year pilot programs to 
 
 
 assess the feasibility and advisability of mechanisms to reduce barriers to participation in the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at certain historically Black colleges and universities and certain other minority institutions of higher education (covered institutions) by creating partnerships between satellite or extension Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units at such institutions and military installations, and 
 
 assess the feasibility and advisability of providing financial assistance to members of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps and members of the Coast Guard College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative at covered institutions for participation in flight training.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Health Enterprise Zones Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7158
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Dental care
Disability and health-based discrimination
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Housing supply and affordability
Income tax credits
Medical education
Mental health
Nutrition and diet
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Student aid and college costs
Transportation costs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Health Enterprise Zones Act of 2020

 
This bill provides for the designation of Health Enterprise Zones in certain geographic areas with documented and measurable health disparities. This designation, which expires 10 fiscal years after the bill's enactment, confers eligibility for certain grants, student loan repayment programs, and tax credits for those working to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes in these zones. 
 
Specifically, community-based nonprofits or local government agencies, in coalition with health care providers, social service organizations, and others, may apply to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the designation. The application must include a plan to reduce health disparities and achieve other outcomes.
 
In implementing the program, HHS must consult with, among others, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. When approving applications, HHS shall consider factors including geographic diversity and the commitment of supporting funds from the private sector. HHS (1) may award grants to organizations or agencies that applied for the designation to support activities aligned with their plans, and (2) must carry out a student loan repayment program for health care providers who agree to provide services in a Health Enterprise Zone. 
 
In addition, the bill establishes tax credits for employers that hire, and individuals who work as, Health Enterprise Zone workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
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: 2020-06-11
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: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Crisis Care Improvement and Suicide Prevention Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7159
Sponsor: Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Mental health
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Crisis Care Improvement and Suicide Prevention Act of 2020

 
This bill requires states to support evidence-based crisis care services, such as crisis call centers, through the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant. In addition, for each year in which the appropriations for that grant exceed a specified amount, states must expend a certain percentage of their grant allotments on crisis care services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2020-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Opportunities for Broadband Deployment Act

Bill: 116-hr-7160
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Health facilities and institutions
Health technology, devices, supplies
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Libraries and archives
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Expanding Opportunities for Broadband Deployment Act

 
This bill expands eligibility for the universal service support mechanisms through which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) assists broadband service providers with making essential communications technology available for all consumers.
 
Under current law, a broadband service provider must be designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier to receive universal service support.
 
The bill makes a broadband service provider that is not so designated eligible to receive universal service support if the provider meets certain legal, financial, and technical requirements.
 
Further, the bill requires the FCC to designate broadband service as supported by federal universal service support mechanisms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
COVID–19 Memorial Quilt Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7161
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Art, artists, authorship
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional agencies
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal-Indian relations
Historical and cultural resources
Humanities programs funding
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Library of Congress
Monuments and memorials
Smithsonian Institution
U.S. Capitol

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

COVID-19 Memorial Quilt Act of 2020

 
This bill directs the Smithsonian Institution and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to jointly carry out a project to be known as the &quot;COVID-19 Pandemic Memorial Quilt Project&quot; to honor and remember Americans who have lost their lives to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.
 
The bill establishes the Congressional Advisory Panel on Honoring Victims of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The panel shall develop and submit a plan to carry out the memorial quilt project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2020-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E532-533)
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Markets for State-Inspected Meat Processors Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7162
Sponsor: Rep. Cheney, Liz [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Meat
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

Expanding Markets for State-Inspected Meat Processors Act of 2020

 
This bill allows meat and meat food products inspected by State Meat and Poultry Inspection programs to be sold in interstate commerce. (Under the inspection program, the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service allows states that meet certain requirements to inspect meat and meat food products. The state-inspected products are currently limited to intrastate commerce, unless a state opts into a separate Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
VA FOIA Reform Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7163
Sponsor: Rep. Cisneros, Gilbert Ray, Jr. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2020-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Freedom of information
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
National Archives and Records Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: 

VA FOIA Reform Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reduce the backlog of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by 75% within three years of enactment of the bill. Additionally, the VA must reduce the backlog of Office of Special Counsel requests made to the VA by 75% within three years of the enactment of this bill.
 
The VA must determine the types of documents, records, and information that are frequently requested under FOIA and must regularly make such documents, records, and information publicly available.
 
Finally, the VA must request that the Office of Government Information Services within the National Archives and Records Administration conduct an assessment of the VA's compliance with FOIA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-17
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2020-09-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2020-07-23
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2020-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-11
text: Introduced in House