hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Closing Health Coverage Gaps for Public Servants Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7045
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-45]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: 

Closing Health Coverage Gaps for Public Servants Act of 2022

 
This bill eliminates the ability for nonfederal governmental group health plans to opt out of certain coverage requirements, such as parity in providing benefits for mental health and substance use disorder benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to submit to Congress reports describing the average amount of individual assistance and individual and household assistance provided to certain individuals and households and the rate of denial of such assistance, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-7046
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: 
This bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to submit to Congress reports describing the average amount of disaster assistance provided to individuals and households and the rate of denial of such assistance.
 
Further, FEMA must explain any factors causing an increase in the rate of denial.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Lowering Costs by Improving Biosimilar Uptake Act

Bill: 117-hr-7047
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: 

Lowering Costs by Improving Biosimilar Uptake Act

 
This bill allows for the omission of certain information relating to the strength of a product in a biosimilar application, as determined by the Food and Drug Administration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Protect Lifesaving Anesthesia Care for Veterans Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7048
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: 

Protect Lifesaving Anesthesia Care for Veterans Act of 2022

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from modifying its policy relating to anesthesia care in a manner that would provide any medical professional other than a physician anesthesiologist with full practice authority for the furnishment of anesthesia care to veterans under VA health care laws. The VA is also prohibited from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing the provisions relating to anesthesia care of the proposed rule titled
 Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
 (81 Fed. Reg. 33155), or any substantially similar rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Borrower Protection Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7049
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: 

Mortgage Borrower Protection Act of 2022 

 
This bill requires an entity extending a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing agreement to receive written consent from each owner of any residential mortgage loan or other recorded lien on the property before extending such financing to the dwelling owner. (PACE financing is used to cover the costs of home improvements such as energy-efficient improvements. The subsequent lien is tied to the specific property in the form of a tax assessment.) 
 
Consent is not required if the PACE financing does not have priority over the mortgage loan or lien.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Ernest Peltz Accrued Veterans Benefits Act

Bill: 117-hr-7050
Sponsor: Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: 

Ernest Peltz Accrued Veterans Benefits Act

 
This bill makes certain benefits that are payable to the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran payable to the veteran's children or dependent parents if the veteran does not have a surviving spouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7051
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Digital media
Health care costs and insurance
Internet, web applications, social media
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: 

Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act of 2022

 
This bill provides for Medicare and Medicaid coverage of prescription digital therapeutics (i.e., software applications that are used to prevent, manage, or treat medical conditions). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must establish a Medicare payment methodology for payments to manufacturers that takes into account certain factors (e.g., ongoing use); manufacturers must report specified information about private payors, subject to civil penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-09
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: 2022-03-09
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: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1535 East Los Ebanos Boulevard in Brownsville, Texas, as the "1st Lieutenant Andres Zermeno Post Office Building".

Bill: 117-hr-7052
Sponsor: Rep. Vela, Filemon [D-TX-34]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1535 East Los Ebanos Boulevard in Brownsville, Texas, as the "1st Lieutenant Andres Zermeno Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act

Bill: 117-hr-7053
Sponsor: Rep. Wenstrup, Brad R. [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2022-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: 

Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act

 
This bill extends the Acute Hospital Care at Home Program under Medicare until two years after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (the program allows hospitals to treat certain patients from emergency departments or inpatient hospital beds at home during the emergency period). It also requires an evaluation of this program and the Hospital Without Walls program (the program allowed hospitals to transfer patients to outside facilities, such as hotels, to continue treatment during the emergency period).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2022-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-09
text: Introduced in House
COVID–19 Oral History Project Act

Bill: 117-hr-7054
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Charitable contributions
Congressional agencies
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Historical and cultural resources
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet, web applications, social media
Library of Congress
Sound recording
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

COVID-19 Oral History Project Act

 
This bill directs the Library of Congress to establish an oral history program in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to collect and make publicly available in a digital format individual stories of events and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The bill includes a requirement to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of those who were affected by the pandemic. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Elijah E. Cummings Family Asthma Act

Bill: 117-hr-7055
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

 Elijah E. Cummings Family Asthma Act

 
This bill expands various public health activities and related requirements concerning asthma.
 
Specifically, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must collaborate with state and local health departments to (1) conduct activities regarding asthma, including deterring the harmful consequences of uncontrolled asthma, and disseminating health education and information regarding prevention of asthma episodes and strategies for managing asthma; and (2) develop state plans incorporating public health responses to reduce the burden of asthma, particularly regarding disproportionately affected populations. Additionally, the bill revises and expands requirements for asthma surveillance activities and requires the CDC to coordinate data collection activities to maximize the comparability of results.
 
Further, the Department of Health and Human Services must submit an assessment of current activities related to asthma prevention, management, and surveillance that includes recommendations for the future direction of asthma activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-7056
Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-21]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act of 2021 

 
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to build a searchable database with certain information about each temporary foreign nonimmigrant worker. The database shall include information such as (1) each worker's age, sex, and country of origin; (2) the type of visa used and the status of such visa; (3) where each worker is employed; and (4) each worker's occupation and the compensation received. 
 
The database shall only be available to (1) law enforcement, (2) service providers to human trafficking victims, (3) worker protection organizations, and (4) entities agreeing to use the information only for research purposes. 
 
The bill expands existing reporting requirements related to temporary foreign nonimmigrant workers to include additional information such as (1) the 10 employers that hired the most temporary foreign nonimmigrant workers, and (2) the 10 occupations with the most temporary foreign nonimmigrant workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Unmasking of Americans Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7057
Sponsor: Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A. [R-FL-26]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

Unmasking of Americans Act of 2022

 
This bill prohibits the Transportation Security Administration from enforcing or implementing any federal government directive, regulation, or requirement relating to the wearing of a mask in public transportation systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Federal Student Loan Integrity Act

Bill: 117-hr-7058
Sponsor: Rep. Good, Bob [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

Federal Student Loan Integrity Act

 
This bill limits the authority of the Department of Education (ED) to waive or modify statutes and regulations in response to military contingencies or national emergencies, including by prohibiting ED from further using this authority in connection with the COVID-19 national emergency.
 
Under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003, ED may waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to federal student-aid programs as ED deems necessary in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency. This bill prohibits ED from issuing a waiver or modification that (1) provides for a period that exceeds 30 days during which payments of principal or interest due on federal student loans are suspended or interest does not accrue on such loans, or (2) results in the discharge or cancellation of federal student loans.
 
Further, the bill prohibits ED from using this authority to waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to federal student-aid programs in connection with the national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020, to respond to COVID-19.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
No Alternatives to Detention for Illegals Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7059
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

No Alternatives to Detention for Illegals Act of 2022

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enacting any program that provides alternatives to detention for a non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law) who is in DHS custody and housed at an immigration detention center.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Connect Unserved Americans Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7060
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

Connect Unserved Americans Act of 2022

 
This bill modifies administration of and requirements for broadband deployment programs.
 
Specifically, it requires the Department of the Treasury to participate in interagency activities to coordinate federally supported broadband deployment.
 
The bill also increases the percentage (from 50% to 80%) of rural households that a project must serve in order to receive a grant or a loan to expand access to broadband for distance learning and telemedicine in rural areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2022-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act

Bill: 117-hr-7061
Sponsor: Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Energy prices
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act

 
This bill imposes an excise tax on the windfall profits of crude oil on taxpayers who extracted and imported more than 300,000 barrels (a barrel equals 42 U.S. gallons) of taxable crude oil (i.e., crude oil, crude oil condensates, and natural gasoline) in 2019, or who extracted and imported that amount in the current calendar quarter.
 
The bill requires rebates of the tax collected to be paid to individual taxpayers. The bill establishes the Protect Consumers from Gas Hikes Fund to finance such rebates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Harriet Tubman Act

Bill: 117-hr-7062
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

Honoring Harriet Tubman Act

 
This bill requires the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Harriet Tubman and place the statue in a suitable permanent location in National Statuary Hall.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Maximum Pressure on Iranian Terrorists Act

Bill: 117-hr-7063
Sponsor: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

Restoring Maximum Pressure on Iranian Terrorists Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for provisions of an executive order issued June 24, 2019, that imposed sanctions relating to Iran, including sanctions on the Supreme Leader of Iran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
Hydrogen for Trucks Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7064
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-45]
Introduced: 2022-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infrastructure development
Motor carriers

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: 

Hydrogen for Trucks Act of 2022

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to provide grants for the funding of capital projects to purchase heavy-duty fuel cell vehicles and related equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-11
text: Introduced in House