hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
RAPID Act

Bill: 116-hr-7374
Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2020-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal-Indian relations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Infrastructure development
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: 

Reducing Antiquated Permitting for Infrastructure Deployment Act or the RAPID Act

 
 This bill modifies review requirements for deployment of a small personal wireless service facility and establishes a presumption related to the deployment of wireless facilities on properties owned by an Indian tribe or a Native Hawaiian organization.
 
Specifically, the bill exempts the deployment of a small personal wireless service facility from specified environmental and historic preservation review requirements.
 
The bill also establishes a rebuttable presumption that a wireless provider has completed a request for review if an Indian tribe or a Native Hawaiian organization has received certain completed forms with information reasonably necessary to ascertain whether historic properties of religious and cultural significance may be affected by the deployment of new or collocated wireless facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Access to Small Business Investor Capital Act

Bill: 116-hr-7375
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2020-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business investment and capital
Business records
Financial services and investments
Licensing and registrations
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: 

Access to Small Business Investor Capital Act 

 
This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to specify that a business development company is not considered an acquired fund for the purpose of certain fee and expense calculations as part of investment company registration statements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
National Security Innovation Act

Bill: 116-hr-7376
Sponsor: Rep. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI-8]
Introduced: 2020-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Homeland security
Manufacturing
Public-private cooperation
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: 

N

ational Security Innovation Act

 
This bill establishes an advisory board on national security innovation within the Defense Innovation Unit of the Department of Defense (DOD). It also extends through December 31, 2026, the DOD pilot program on assessing the feasibility of increasing the defense industrial base to support (1) production needs to meet military requirements, and (2) manufacturing and production of emerging defense and commercial technologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
DIGITAL Applications Act

Bill: 116-hr-7377
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2020-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Land use and conservation
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: 

Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the DIGITAL Applications Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior to establish online portals for the acceptance, processing, and disposal of a Form 299. Form 299 is the application form for the right to install, construct, modify, or maintain a communications facility on federal real property. 
 
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration must publish links to each portal on its website. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Brownfields Broadband Deployment Act

Bill: 116-hr-7378
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2020-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Historic sites and heritage areas
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: 

Brownfields Broadband Deployment Act 

 
This bill excludes certain communications facility deployment or modification projects from specified review requirements.
 
Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review a project for the deployment or modification of a communications facility that is to be carried out entirely within a brownfield site (real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To designate the clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Bend, Oregon, as the "Robert D. Maxwell Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic".

Bill: 116-hr-7379
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2020-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Oregon
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: 
This bill designates the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Bend, Oregon, as the Robert D. Maxwell Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic or the Robert D. Maxwell VA Clinic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Introduced in House
HBCU Capital Finance Debt Relief Act

Bill: 116-hr-7380
Sponsor: Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Minority education
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 

HBCU Capital Finance Debt Relief Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Education to, within 30 days, cancel the obligation of historically Black colleges and universities to repay the balance of principal and interest due on their capital financing loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to include a penalty for the destruction of a memorial of a constitutional leader, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-7381
Sponsor: Rep. Banks, Jim [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Monuments and memorials
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 
This bill expands the applicability of an existing criminal statute that protects veterans' monuments.
 
Currently, it is a crime to willfully injure or destroy a monument that commemorates a person who served in the Armed Forces. 
 
This bill expands the prohibition to also make it a crime to willfully injure or destroy a monument that commemorates a person who signed the Declaration of Independence, or a President.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Guard and Reserve Retirement Points during COVID–19 Pandemic Act

Bill: 116-hr-7382
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 

Guard and Reserve Retirement Points during COVID-19 Pandemic Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Defense to approve constructive credit towards retirement for a reservist of the Armed Forces who cannot complete minimum annual training requirements due to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) national emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study regarding women involuntarily separated or discharged from the Armed Forces due to pregnancy or parenthood, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-7383
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Women's employment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study regarding women involuntarily separated or discharged from the Armed Forces due to pregnancy or parenthood during the period of 1951-1976. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Safer Communities Act

Bill: 116-hr-7384
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employee performance
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 

Safer Communities Act

 
This bill requires a state or local government that receives funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to maintain a system for sharing disciplinary records of law enforcement officers. It also requires the Department of Justice to award a one-time grant to states to establish a system for sharing disciplinary records.
 
Additionally, the bill expands death and disability benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB) to retired public safety officers (e.g., law enforcement officers) and survivors of retired public safety officers who die while engaging in a public or private security obligation. The PSOB program provides death, disability, and education benefits to public safety officers and survivors of public safety officers who are killed or injured in the line of duty.
 
Finally, the bill directs the Government Accountability Office to study and report on settlement or collaborative agreements entered into pursuant to litigation arising out of allegations of police misconduct.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
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: 116-hr-7385
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Department of the Interior
Military history
Parks, recreation areas, trails
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
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: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
HOMES Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7386
Sponsor: Rep. Finkenauer, Abby [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing industry and standards
Lease and rental services

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 

Helping Owners Meet Essential Standards Act of 2020 or the HOMES Act of 2020 

 
This bill requires manufactured housing communities and home parks to meet minimum consumer protections to be eligible for certain federally-backed loans for the construction, substantial rehabilitation, or purchase of these communities. Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is prohibited from insuring such a loan, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are prohibited from purchasing such a loan, unless a borrower provides specified tenant protections, including 
 
 
one-year renewable lease terms, unless there is good cause for nonrenewal; 
 
a 60-day advance notice of any increase in rent, or of a sale or closure of the community; 
 
a five-day grace period for rent payments; and
 
a right for a tenant to sell a manufactured home within a reasonable time period after eviction.
 
 
The bill also establishes the Manufactured Home Company Lending Standards Commission to propose additional consumer protection standards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
RLF Act

Bill: 116-hr-7388
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economic development
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 

Reinvigorating Lending for the Future Act or the RLF Act

 
This bill reduces reporting requirements for recipients of Revolving Loan Fund grants, which provide funds to capitalize lending programs for businesses that cannot obtain traditional bank financing.
 
Specifically, upon request by a qualifying grantee, the Economic Development Administration (EDA) must release any federal interest in a grant&#8212;thereby relieving the grantee of associated federal reporting requirements&#8212;if the request is made at least seven years after the final disbursement of the original grant. Currently, the EDA may release the federal interest in a grant beginning 20 years after the grant was awarded. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Freedom to Move Act

Bill: 116-hr-7389
Sponsor: Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Public transit
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations
Transportation costs
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 

Freedom to Move Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to award competitive five-year grants (Freedom to Move Grants) to states, local governments, transit agencies, and non-profit organizations in both rural and urban areas to cover the lost fare revenue for fare-free public transportation and improve public transportation.
 
Grants shall be used to support (1) implementing a fare-free transit program; and (2) efforts to improve public transportation, particularly in underserved communities, such as costs associated with efforts to provide more safe, frequent, and reliable bus service, including bus stop safety and accessibility improvements, and pedestrian and bike shelters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to add to matters covered by counseling in the Transition Assistance Program.

Bill: 116-hr-7390
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Kathleen M. [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Domestic violence and child abuse
Government information and archives
Mental health
Military personnel and dependents
Sex offenses
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 
This bill requires the Transition Assistance Program for separating or retiring service members to include information on health care, including mental health care, furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans and service members who have survived sexual assault, sexual or gender harassment, or intimate partner violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Protect Telehealth Access Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-7391
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2020-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: 

Protect Telehealth Access Act of 2020

 
This bill modifies requirements relating to coverage of telehealth services under Medicare. Specifically, the bill removes restrictions that require the originating site (i.e., the location of the beneficiary) to be in a rural area, and allows the home of a beneficiary to serve as the originating site for all services (rather than for only certain services).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Introduced in House