hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
IMPROVE Addiction Care Act

Bill: 117-hr-4203
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medicaid
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

Improving Medicaid Programs' Response to Overdose Victims and Enhancing Addiction Care Act or the IMPROVE Addiction Care Act

 
This bill establishes additional requirements for state Medicaid drug-use review programs with respect to individuals who experience opioid-related overdoses. 
 
Specifically, programs must include protocols that (1) connect individuals who have experienced an opioid-related overdose within the last five years to appropriate treatment; (2) notify providers who prescribe opioids about subsequent fatal overdoses; (3) ensure providers are notified about an individual's history of opioid-use disorder, overdoses, or poisonings; and (4) educate providers about proper prescribing practices for these individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Affordable HOUSE Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4204
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

Affordable Housing Opportunities for Utilization, Sustainment, and Expansion Act of 20

21 or the Affordable HOUSE Act
 
of 2021

 
This bill modifies the low-income housing tax credit basis limitation rules applicable to the acquisition of buildings in service within the previous 10 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Save Affordable Housing Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4205
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

Save Affordable Housing Act of 2021

 
This bill revises the low-income housing tax credit to repeal the qualified contract option for a building that received its allocation of housing credit dollar amount before January 1, 2019, or received before that date, a determination from the bond issuer or housing credit agency of its eligibility to receive an allocation of a housing credit dollar amount. 
 
Under current law, properties eligible for the low-income housing tax credit are subject to a 30-year affordability period, during which the value of properties is set at a below market rate. The qualified contract option allows property owners, in some cases, to convert to market rate after 15 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Clemency Home Rule Act

Bill: 117-hr-4206
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
District of Columbia
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

District of Columbia Clemency Home Rule Act

 
This bill declares that the authority to grant clemency for offenses against the District of Columbia shall be exercised by such person or persons, and under such terms and conditions, as may be provided under a District law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E708)
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Political Appointments Inclusion and Diversity Act

Bill: 117-hr-4207
Sponsor: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

Political Appointments Inclusion and Diversity Act

 
This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in coordination with the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, to publish a report on OPM's public website containing summary level information on the demographics of political appointees.
 
Each published report shall include for each type of appointee self-identified data on race, ethnicity, tribal affiliation, gender, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, and whether the appointee is over the age of 40. Such a report shall allow for users of OPM's website to view the type of appointee by agency or component, along with these self-identified data, alone and in combination, without allowing the identification of the appointee. 
 
When collecting each category of data, each appointee shall be allowed an option to not specify with respect to any category.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Section 331 Obligation Clarification Act

Bill: 117-hr-4208
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

Section 331 Obligation Clarification Act

 
This bill specifies that certain service obligations owed by the licensee of a commercial television broadcast station apply regardless of the broadcast frequency used by the licensee.
 
Specifically, the bill provides that a licensee making a change from a very high frequency (VHF) broadcast station to an ultrahigh frequency (UHF) broadcast station must ensure the change does not affect its obligation to provide service to its customers. The bill also requires such a licensee to (1) broadcast at least 14 hours of common local programming per week, (2) include a substantial amount of particularized local content, and (3) maintain a studio in the station's community. 
 
 The bill further provides for the reallocation of a station to a community where there is no VHF or UHF station.
 
The Government Accountability Office must examine and report on the process used by the Federal Communications Commission for renewing broadcast television licenses to determine if that process meets specified obligations. In particular, the GAO must review how the process relates to television broadcast stations with specific obligations to serve the needs of their local communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Reforestation Act

Bill: 117-hr-4210
Sponsor: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

Disaster Reforestation Act

 
This bill sets forth a special rule for the tax deduction for casualty losses of uncut timber (including pre-merchantable timber). It provides that in losses of any uncut timber from fire, storm, insects, invasive species, drought, or other casualty, or from theft, the basis for determining the amount of the deduction for such loss shall not be less than the excess of the value of such timber determined immediately before such loss was sustained, over the salvage value of such timber. 
 
To be eligible for the casualty loss deduction, the uncut timber subject to the loss must be reforested not later than the close of the five-year period beginning on the date of the loss.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
EMPOWER NIH Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4211
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

Enabling More Penetrating Oversight When Examining Research for NIH Act of 2021 or the EMPOWER NIH Act of 2021

 
This bill requires annual, unannounced, in-person inspections of all nonfederal entities that receive funding, including through subawards, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess whether the funded research is consistent with the research proposal and otherwise meets record-keeping requirements and NIH standards.
 
The inspections are required even when an entity is located in a foreign country with a government that interferes with the inspection; entities that fail an inspection must return the full amount of NIH funding and lose eligibility for future NIH funding for at least five years.
 
The bill is effective on October 1, 2023, and applies to NIH funding awarded both before and after that date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Flag Code Modernization Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4212
Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2021-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: 

Flag Code Modernization Act of 2021

 
This bill revises provisions regarding customs and practices with respect to the American flag.
 
Among other changes, the bill permits U.S. postal workers to wear the flag on their uniforms and modifies provisions regarding the position and manner of display of the flag.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-28
text: Introduced in House
YSEALI Act

Bill: 117-hr-4213
Sponsor: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Area studies and international education
Congressional oversight
Cultural exchanges and relations
Government information and archives
Higher education
International exchange and broadcasting
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 

Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Act or the YSEALI Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the Department of State's Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative. 
 
The initiative shall include an academic fellows program and a professional fellows program to bring eligible students and professionals to the United States for building practical expertise, leadership skills, and professional networks. The fellows programs shall be open to qualified individuals who are citizens and residents of a member country of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or a country that the State Department determines to be appropriate for the programs. 
 
The State Department shall oversee all U.S.-based activities carried out under the initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-09-15
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2022-09-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2022-09-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2021-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Tax Deadline Simplification Act

Bill: 117-hr-4214
Sponsor: Rep. Lesko, Debbie [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 

Tax Deadline Simplification Act

 
This bill requires individual estimated income tax to be paid on a quarterly basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Rebuilding Communities After Disasters Act

Bill: 117-hr-4215
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 

Rebuilding Communities After Disasters Act

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to increase the loan limits for the disaster loan program and to communicate certain information about the program following disasters.
 
Specifically, the bill raises from $40,000 to $75,000 the loan amount for repair or replacement of household and personal effects and from $200,000 to $400,000 the loan amount for repair or replacement of a primary residence.
 
Further, the bill requires the SBA to communicate through radio, television, print, and web-based outlets all relevant information needed by disaster loan applicants if a disaster is declared or the SBA declares eligibility for additional disaster assistance. (Currently, the SBA is only required to endeavor to communicate such information.)
 
The SBA must submit a report on the disaster loan program that includes information such as the number and dollar value of program loans and the average estimated dollar value of damage sustained by borrowers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Clarence Thomas to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library.

Bill: 117-hr-4216
Sponsor: Rep. Steil, Bryan [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 
The bill directs the Joint Committee on the Library to remove the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the Capitol and to obtain a bust of Clarence Thomas with which to replace it. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
TRIUMPH for New Moms Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4217
Sponsor: Rep. Barragan, Nanette Diaz [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Family services
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Minority health
Poverty and welfare assistance
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 

Taskforce Recommending Improvements for Unaddressed Mental Perinatal & Postpartum Health for New Moms Act of 2021 or the TRIUMPH for New Moms Act of 2021

 
This bill temporarily establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services the Task Force on Maternal Mental Health.
 
The task force must develop a national strategy for maternal mental health and report on best practices, policies, and programs to prevent, screen for, diagnose, treat, and reduce disparities in maternal mental health conditions. The report must identify opportunities for state- and local-level partnerships to address maternal mental health, and the task force must share those opportunities with state governors. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Women Veteran Report Act

Bill: 117-hr-4218
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 

Women Veteran Report Act

 
This bill requires the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans to report annually (currently biennially) on the programs and activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs that pertain to women veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to adjust the royalty rates for leases for coal mining and oil and gas extraction on Federal land, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-4219
Sponsor: Rep. Cheney, Liz [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 
This bill revises the royalty rates for leases on federal land to produce coal, oil, and gas. Specifically the bill caps the royalty rate for coal and establishes a royalty rate for oil and gas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
National Climate Service Corps and Careers Network Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4220
Sponsor: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Atmospheric science and weather
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Community life and organization
Disaster relief and insurance
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Environmental health
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Labor-management relations
Minority health
National and community service
Natural disasters
Racial and ethnic relations
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 

National Climate Service Corps and Careers Network Act of 
 
2021

 
This bill establishes the Climate Resiliency Service Corps as a national service program to assist communities in mitigating the effects climate change and establishes the Climate Careers Network to connect individuals with jobs in green industries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
To direct the United States Postal Service to designate 77416 as the single, unique ZIP Code for Sargent, Texas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-4221
Sponsor: Rep. Cloud, Michael [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 
This bill directs the U.S Postal Service to designate 77416 as the single, unique ZIP Code for Sargent, Texas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Capitol Police Retirement Reform Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4222
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
U.S. Capitol
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 

Capitol Police Retirement Reform Act of 2021

 
This bill revises the treatment of overtime pay for members of the U.S. Capitol Police for purposes of calculating certain annuity benefits, including benefits received upon a member's retirement. 
 
Specifically, the bill categorizes overtime pay as basic pay, subject to annual statutory maximums. (Basic pay is used to calculate a member's average earnings amount upon which benefits are based.)
 
Overtime pay may only be treated as basic pay for purposes of a retirement annuity calculation under the Federal Employees Retirement System if the retiring member has completed at least 15 years of service. Further, such overtime pay may only be treated as basic pay if earned on or after the date of enactment, and only to the extent of the percentage allowable based upon the amount of service as set forth in this bill.
 
However, 100% of all amounts received as overtime pay by members of the Capitol Police earned on or after the date of enactment are treated as basic pay for purposes of computing
 
 
 a disability annuity; and
 
a survivor annuity, if based on the service of an individual who dies before separating from service. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Demonstrating that Empowerment Makes Opportunities Act

Bill: 117-hr-4223
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2021-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: 

Demonstrating that Empowerment Makes Opportunities Act or the DEMO Act

 
This bill establishes and provides FY2022 funding for demonstration projects that provide education and training for health care occupations to low-income individuals with criminal records. The Department of Health and Human Services must consult with the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice on these projects.
 
Entities eligible to administer these projects include state, tribal, territorial, and local governments; institutions of higher education; specified health care providers; and other organizations with a demonstrated history of providing health professional training. As part of the projects, entities must provide legal assistance to project participants to address their criminal records and associated employment barriers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Introduced in House