hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
TEMP Act

Bill: 117-hr-7498
Sponsor: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2022-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-11
text: 

Temperature Endorsement for Multi-Peril Policies or the
 
TEMP Act 

 
This bill directs the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to conduct or enter into contracts to carry out research and development regarding a temperature-based index policy to insure crops on a nationally-available basis against losses due to a frost or cold weather event, including research to evaluate the effectiveness of risk management tools with respect to low frequency and catastrophic loss weather events.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2022-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2022-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Improving Federal Investigations of Organized Retail Crime Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7499
Sponsor: Rep. Kim, Young [R-CA-39]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Organized crime
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

Improving Federal Investigations of Organized Retail Crime Act of 

2022

 
This bill requires various federal agencies to develop a strategy to improve coordination with state and local law enforcement entities to address organized retail crime.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Postal Service, and other relevant agencies to 
 
 
improve federal information sharing about organized retail crime networks,
 
assist state and local law enforcement in compiling materials and evidence needed to prosecute organized retail crime, and 
 
increase cooperation and information sharing with the retail industry and retail crime task forces. 
 
 
The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to report on private sector and law enforcement collaboration to deter and investigate organized retail crime.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
I–70 Detour Act

Bill: 117-hr-7501
Sponsor: Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

I-70 Detour Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to submit to Congress a report with recommendations for significant improvements and potential alternatives to offset extended closures associated with Interstate Route 70, including at least one alternative to improve the resilience of Interstate Route 70 and reduce risks from nearby hazards.
 
The report must include information regarding the cost and feasibility of each alternative or improvement described in the report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
Babies over Billionaires Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7502
Sponsor: Rep. Bowman, Jamaal [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Capital gains tax
Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family services
Foreign and international banking
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

Babies over Billionaires Act of 2022

 
This bill sets forth a special tax rule that requires the realization (i.e., deemed sold) at the end of the taxable year of the gains and losses of the publicly traded and private securities of taxpayers whose net worth exceeds $100 million. It limits the tax liability of such taxpayers to 35% of the amount by which their net worth exceeds $100 million at the end of the taxable year. 
 
The Internal Revenue Service must annually audit taxpayers whose net worth exceeds $100 million in the current taxable year and any of the 3 preceding taxable years and impose a penalty of 20% of understatements of tax (40% if understatements are due to failure to report an asset). 
 
The bill establishes the Family Investment Trust Fund to hold tax revenues generated by this bill for programs to support family well-being and the development of children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
American Innovation Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7503
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Corporate finance and management
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

American Innovation Act of 2022

 
This bill revises the tax treatment of business start-up or organizational expenditures. Specifically, it allows an election to deduct such expenditures in an amount equal to the lesser of the aggregate amount of such expenditures incurred by an active trade of business, or $20,000, reduced by the amount by which such aggregate amount exceeds $120,000. The remaining amount of such expenditures shall be amortized over the 180 month period after the trade or business begins. 
 
The bill also revises the tax treatment of partnership syndication fees and start-up net operating losses and tax credits after an ownership change.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make a portion of research credit refundable for certain small businesses engaging in specified medical research.

Bill: 117-hr-7504
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 
This bill allows for the refundability of a portion of the tax credit for increasing research activities for small businesses (gross receipts not exceeding $1 million) engaged in specified medical research. Under the Public Health Service Act, 
specified medical research
 means research with respect to qualified countermeasures (i.e., a drug, biological product, or device for preventing harm from any biological agent or from a condition that may result in adverse health consequences or death).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to add a new medical research component to the credit for increasing research activities.

Bill: 117-hr-7505
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 
This bill expands the tax credit for increasing research activities to add a new credit amount equal to 14% of specified medical research expenditures. The bill defines 
specified medical research expenditures
 as amounts paid or incurred for research with respect to any qualified countermeasure (i.e., a drug, biological product, or device determined to be a priority in protecting against harm from a biological agent or adverse health condition).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
New Era of Preventing End-Stage Kidney Disease Act

Bill: 117-hr-7506
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

New Era of Preventing End-Stage Kidney Disease Act

 
This bill addresses rare kidney diseases through research, training for health professionals, and other means. It also modifies requirements for Medicare drug plan formularies that include drugs for rare diseases or conditions.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must
 
 
convene a conference focused on diagnosis and treatment of rare kidney diseases;
 
study risk factors, access to care (including to genetic and genomic testing), and other matters related to rare kidney diseases; and
 
establish grants for supporting kidney disease education and referrals in communities of color.
 
 
HHS may award grants to educate and train health professionals about kidney disease and nephrology. Additionally, health professional schools that receive certain HHS funding for educating underrepresented minority individuals must support postgraduate nephrology training.
 
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) must report on diversity in its kidney disease research. The NIH may also (1) support research on rare kidney diseases that, among other requirements, includes persons of color in study populations; and (2) establish regional centers of excellence for rare kidney diseases.
 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must evaluate methods for (1) treating rare kidney diseases, with a focus on delaying dialysis and transplant; and (2) raising awareness about rare kidney diseases, including in communities of color.
 
Furthermore, if a Medicare drug plan formulary includes a drug to treat a rare disease or condition, at least two members of the committee that develops or reviews the formulary must have expertise in the field of medicine related to that drug.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-04-14
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: 2022-04-14
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: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
REFORM Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7507
Sponsor: Rep. Cawthorn, Madison [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

Reinforcing Every Final Order of Removal Measure Act of 2022 or the REFORM Act of 2022

 
This bill imposes additional requirements pertaining to a foreign country that refuses to accept (or unreasonably delays in accepting) its citizens, nationals, subjects, or residents who are subject to a final order of removal from the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
Improving Specialty Care for Women Veterans Act

Bill: 117-hr-7508
Sponsor: Rep. Crist, Charlie [D-FL-13]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

Improving Specialty Care for Women Veterans Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to implement a program for the recruitment, retention, and training of specialty care providers for former members of the Armed Forces who are women. Individuals serving in a medical internship or residency program or nurses and physicians who are covered providers (i.e., employees of the VA or persons providing care under the Veterans Community Care Program) may participate in the program. 
 
The VA may target individuals with expertise in certain specialty care areas for recruitment. Additionally, the VA may offer targeted individuals appropriate incentives (e.g., monetary incentives).
 
The VA must provide individuals participating in the program with training and support related to the unique needs of women veterans. 
 
Finally, the VA must (1) provide veterans enrolled in the VA health care system with information that indicates whether a provider has participated in the program, and (2) improve the timeliness of appointments scheduled with such providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
Wild Rogue Conservation and Recreation Enhancement Act

Bill: 117-hr-7509
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Land use and conservation
Oregon
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

Wild Rogue Conservation and Recreation Enhancement Act
 
 
This bill designates specified Bureau of Land Management land in Oregon as the Rogue Canyon National Recreation Area and adds approximately 59,512 acres of federal land to the Wild Rogue Wilderness. 
 
The Department of the Interior, for public land, and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), for National Forest System land, must conduct a wildfire risk assessment that covers the recreation area, the Wild Rogue Wilderness, and any adjacent federal land. Interior and USDA must develop plans to mitigate wildfire risk to communities located near the land.
 
No new permanent or temporary roads shall be constructed within the recreation areas except as necessary for public safety or to implement the wildfire mitigation plan.
 
 Interior or USDA, as appropriate, may take measures within such wilderness additions as are necessary to control fire, insects, and disease. 
 
All federal surface and subsurface land within the recreation area or the wilderness additions is withdrawn from
 
 
entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; 
 
location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and 
 
disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral leasing, geothermal leasing, or mineral materials. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2022-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
National Education Association Charter Repeal Act

Bill: 117-hr-7510
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzgerald, Scott [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

National Education Association Charter Repeal Act

 
This bill repeals the federal charter granted to the National Education Association of the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
Cut Red Tape Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7511
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

Cut Red Tape Act of 2022

 
This bill establishes in the legislative branch the Regulatory Improvement Commission to make recommendations and propose legislation for modification, consolidation, or repeal of regulations that have been finalized not later than 10 years before the establishment of the commission for the purpose of reducing compliance costs, encouraging growth and innovation, improving competitiveness, and protecting public safety.
 
 The commission must give priority to such regulations that (1) impose disproportionately high costs on a small entity, (2) create substantial recurring paperwork burdens or transaction costs, or (3) could be made more effective while reducing regulatory costs.
 
The bill sets forth reporting requirements for the commission and procedures for congressional consideration of commission reports, recommendations, and proposed legislation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Patients from Deceptive Health Plans Act

Bill: 117-hr-7512
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

Protecting Patients from Deceptive Health Plans Act

 
This bill prohibits the sale of health insurance coverage arrangements that are exempt from the federal health insurance requirements unless the individual purchasing the arrangement is enrolled in a plan that provides minimum essential coverage. Further, excepted benefits must be paid without regard to the severity of the illness, injury, diagnosis, or other characteristics related to treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
PREPARE Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-7513
Sponsor: Rep. Joyce, David P. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2022-04-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: 

Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-prohibition Adult-use Regulated Environment Act of 2022 or the PREPARE Act of 2022

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish the Commission on the Federal Regulation of Cannabis to study a plausible and prompt pathway to cannabis regulation.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2022-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
action_date: 2022-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Agriculture, and 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Agriculture, and 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Agriculture, and 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Agriculture, and 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: 2022-04-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Agriculture, and 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: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-04-14
text: Introduced in House