hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
CBO Show Your Work Act

Bill: 118-hr-1492
Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Congressional agencies
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

CBO Show Your Work Act 

 
This bill requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to make available to Congress and the public each fiscal model, policy model, and data preparation routine that the CBO uses to estimate the costs and other fiscal, social, or economic effects of legislation. 
 
For each estimate of the costs and other fiscal effects of legislation, the CBO must also disclose, in a manner sufficient to permit replication by individuals not employed by the CBO, the data, programs, models, assumptions, and other details of the computations used to prepare the estimate. 
 
For data that may not be disclosed, the CBO must make available to Congress and the public
 
 
 a complete list of all data variables for the data; 
 
 descriptive statistics for all data variables for the data, to the extent that the descriptive statistics do not violate the rule against disclosure; 
 
 a reference to the statute requiring that the data not be disclosed; and 
 
 contact information for the individual or entity who has unrestricted access to the data. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
HCBS Access Act

Bill: 118-hr-1493
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

HCBS Access Act

 
This bill expands coverage of home- and community-based services (HCBS) under Medicaid. It also establishes programs and requirements to support providers who furnish HCBS. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires state Medicaid programs to cover HCBS for individuals who (1) are determined to have a functional impairment that affects daily living and that is expected to last at least 90 days, (2) during the five-year period after the bill is enacted, are already receiving HCBS through Medicaid under a demonstration waiver or other state option, or (3) are under the age of 21 and are otherwise eligible. Covered services include home health care services, private nursing services, homemaking assistance, non-emergency and non-medical transportation, and caregiver support. 
 
The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget to revise the Standard Occupational Classification system so that the occupation of direct support professional (i.e., a professional who provides services for individuals with disabilities) is classified under a separate code as a healthcare support occupation. Additionally, the Administration for Community Living must establish a technical assistance center and award grants to government, nonprofit, educational entities, and relevant employers to support training, recruitment, and retention of direct support professionals.
 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must study the effects of the bill's implementation on HCBS beneficiaries and the direct care workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Hurricane Tax Relief Act

Bill: 118-hr-1494
Sponsor: Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Hurricane Tax Relief Act 

 
This bill modifies tax rules relating to personal casualty losses for taxpayers affected by Hurricanes Ian, Nicole, and Fiona. It eliminates the requirements that such taxpayers must itemize their tax deductions as a condition of eligibility for relief and that their losses exceed 10% of their adjusted gross income. The bill applies these modified requirements to residents of Puerto Rico affected by the Hurricanes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Precision Agriculture Loan Program Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1495
Sponsor: Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Precision Agriculture Loan Program Act of 202

3

 
This bill establishes a loan program within the Farm Service Agency to assist agricultural producers in purchasing precision agriculture equipment and technology, such as geospatial mapping, data management and analytics software, and network connectivity products and solutions. 
 

Precision agriculture
 refers to managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
National Weather Service Communications Improvement Act

Bill: 118-hr-1496
Sponsor: Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

National Weather Service Communications Improvement Act

 
This bill requires the National Weather Service (NWS) to replace NWSChat with a commercial, off-the-shelf communications solution that is hosted on the public cloud. (NWSChat is an instant messaging program used by NWS personnel to share, in real-time, critical warnings and other types of weather information.) The NWS shall allocate up to $3 million of its funding for FY2024-FY2027 on the replacement.

action_date: 2023-05-16
text: 

National Weather Service Communications Improvement Act

 
This bill requires the National Weather Service (NWS) to replace NWSChat with a commercial, off-the-shelf communications solution that is hosted on the public cloud. (NWSChat is an instant messaging program used by NWS personnel to share, in real-time, critical warnings and other types of weather information.) The NWS shall allocate up to $3 million of its funding for FY2024-FY2027 on the replacement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 41.
action_date: 2023-05-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 118-61.
action_date: 2023-05-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 118-61.
action_date: 2023-03-29
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 36 - 0.
action_date: 2023-03-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
American Gas for Allies Act

Bill: 118-hr-1497
Sponsor: Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

American Gas for Allies Act

 
This bill deems the exportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for allied countries to be consistent with the public interest for purposes of the National Gas Act during the next three years. Thus, the bill allows such exports to be expedited during that time period. In order to be expedited, the LNG export must be for (1) a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or (2) any other foreign country if the Department of State determines that the export of LNG to that country would promote the national security interests of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
National Debt is National Security Act

Bill: 118-hr-1498
Sponsor: Rep. Franklin, C. Scott [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

National Debt is National Security Act

 
This bill establishes limits on the portion of the national debt that may be held by foreign governments, entities, and individuals. 
 
Specifically, the portion of the national debt that is cumulatively held by foreign governments, entities organized or incorporated under the laws of a foreign country, and citizens of foreign countries may not exceed one-fourth of the national debt. 
 
In addition, the portion of the national debt that is cumulatively held by the government of a single foreign country, entities organized or incorporated under the laws of the country, and citizens of the country may not exceed 5% of the national debt. 
 
The bill allows the President to waive these limits if the President determines and reports to Congress that an important national interest requires the waiver. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Good Jobs for Good Airports Act

Bill: 118-hr-1499
Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Jesus G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Good Jobs for Good Airports Act

 
This bill modifies pay, benefits, and labor standards for certain airport service workers. Airport service workers include security officers, food service workers, cleaning staff, ticketing agents, and retail service workers.
 
 Specifically, the bill prohibits small, medium, and large hub airports from accessing certain federal funds for airport projects unless the airports certify that such airport service workers are paid no less than the higher of $15 per hour; the applicable federal, state, or local minimum wage and fringe benefits; or the prevailing wage and fringe benefits required under the Service Contract Act, which the bill requires the Department of Labor to establish. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Reauthorization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1502
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Reauthorization Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and modifies competitive grants for comprehensive opioid recovery centers. These centers provide a full continuum of treatment and recovery services to individuals with substance use disorders.
 
In particular, the bill permits applicants for the grants to demonstrate their capacity to provide the required treatment and recovery services through a letter of intent from a partner agency. A 
partner agency
 is a nongovernmental organization or other public or private entity (1) that primarily delivers mental health or substance use disorder treatment services, and (2) that the applicant coordinates with to provide the services required by the grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Prescription Information Modernization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1503
Sponsor: Rep. Harshbarger, Diana [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Prescription Information Modernization Act of 

2023

 
This bill allows health care providers to receive prescribing information for drugs electronically rather than in paper form from manufacturers. Manufacturers must still give providers the option to continue to receive or request the information in paper form. 
 
Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration must hold a public workshop to discuss with stakeholders how to optimize the format, accessibility, and usability of prescribing information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Apex Area Technical Corrections Act

Bill: 118-hr-1504
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Apex Area Technical Corrections Act

 
This bill makes amendments to the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of 1989, which provided Clark County, Nevada, with the option to acquire certain federal land referred to as the Apex Site for use as sites for industries that generate hazardous materials (including the Kerr-McGee site).
 
The Department of the Interior shall grant utility and transportation rights-of-way to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association for the connection of existing electric power, water, natural gas, telephone, railroad, and highway facilities to the Kerr-McGee site and the other lands conveyed in accordance with this bill. 
 
 Interior shall also grant to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Owners Association such rights-of-way on public lands as may be necessary to support the development as a heavy use industrial zone of some or all of the lands authorized for sale by Interior within the Apex Site that lie outside the boundaries of the Kerr-McGee site.
 
Transfers by the United States of any additional lands or interests in lands within the Apex Site or rights-of-way issued pursuant to this bill shall be conditioned upon compliance with applicable federal land laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.
 
The withdrawal of the lands within the Apex Site shall continue in perpetuity for all of the transferred lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-09-18
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2023-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Advisory Committees Free of ESG Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1506
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Advisory Committees Free of ESG Act of 2023

 
This bill prohibits the establishment of federal advisory committees on the basis of environmental, social, and governance aspects and provides for the termination of any existing advisory committees authorized or implemented on such basis.
 
Additionally, the bill authorizes civil actions seeking a determination that an advisory committee was authorized, permitted, or implemented in violation of such provision. The court must order any such advisory committee to be terminated immediately upon such determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Stop Corporate Capture Act

Bill: 118-hr-1507
Sponsor: Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Congressional-executive branch relations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Stop Corporate Capture Act

 
This bill modifies the process for federal agency rulemaking.
 
Specifically, it (1) requires interested parties who submit a study or research as part of a comment to a proposed rule to disclose the source of the funding for the study or research, (2) limits the use of the negotiated rulemaking process to government agencies, (3) provides statutory authority for the judicial principle that requires courts to defer to an agency's reasonable or permissible interpretation of a federal law when the law is silent or ambiguous (i.e., the 
Chevron 
doctrine), and (4) establishes an Office of the Public Advocate to support public participation in the rulemaking process.
 
Additionally, a public company that knowingly makes a false or misleading statement in a comment to a proposed rule is subject to a civil penalty of not less than $250,000 for a first violation and not less than $1 million for each subsequent violation.
 
Finally, the bill provides agencies with the authority to reissue a rule that has been rescinded under a joint resolution of disapproval pursuant to the Congressional Review Act. For one year, beginning on the date of enactment of this bill, an agency may reinstate such a rule by publishing it in the Federal Register. After the one-year period, an agency may reinstate a rule using notice-and-comment rulemaking procedures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Traveler’s Gun Rights Act

Bill: 118-hr-1508
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Traveler's Gun Rights Act

 
This bill broadens the scope of allowable firearms transactions involving active duty service members and their spouses and individuals who do not have a residence in any state.
 
Currently, federal firearms laws generally prohibit a federal firearms licensee (e.g., a gun dealer) from sell or delivering a firearm to an individual whose state of residence is different than the state where the licensee's place of business is located.
 
This bill defines the term 
state of residence
 as the state in which an individual is present with an intention of making a home.
 
In the case of an individual who does not have a physical residence in any state, then the term 
state of residence
 means the address of the individual's private mailbox or post office box.
 
In the case of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty, or his or her spouse, the term 
state of residence
 means (1) the state in which the member's permanent duty station is located, and (2) the state where the member maintains a place of abode from which he or she commutes to the permanent duty station.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-01-18
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 18.
action_date: 2024-01-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Food Financing Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1509
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Healthy Food Financing Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2023

 
 This bill reauthorizes and provides specified funds for the Department of Agriculture's Healthy Food Financing Initiative through FY2028 and for each fiscal year thereafter. (This program provides capacity building and financial resources to eligible healthy food retailers and food supply chain enterprises to assist them in overcoming the high costs and initial barriers to entry in underserved areas.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Improving Access to Nutrition Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1510
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2023-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: 

Improving Access to Nutrition Act of 20
2
3

 
This bill repeals certain work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). 
 
The requirements apply to able-bodied adults who are ages 18-49 and have no dependent children. Individuals who do not meet certain work requirements are generally prohibited from receiving more than 3 months of SNAP benefits over a 36-month period. Under current law, some of the work requirements under SNAP are temporarily suspended due to COVID-19.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Introduced in House