hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Communities Before Air Tourism Act

Bill: 118-hr-2613
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Communities Before Air Tourism Act

 
This bill requires a voluntary agreement for commercial air tour operations over a national park to address specific management issues necessary to protect the park without compromising the well-being of communities overflown by such aircraft. Currently, the voluntary agreement must only address these issues without compromising aviation safety or the air traffic control system. 
 
Further, the bill amends the public review requirements for a proposed voluntary agreement to require consultation with any community whose lands are, or may be, flown over by a commercial air tour operator. Currently, consultation is only required with any Indian tribe whose tribal lands are, or may be, flown over by an operator. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Working Families Task Force Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2614
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Labor

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Working Families Task Force Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to establish an interagency task force to report on, and make recommendations for improving, the standard of living and quality of life for working families. Labor must consult with specified departments, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Transportation, on the task force.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, and 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: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, and 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: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, and 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: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, and 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: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
No Taxation on PFAS Remediation Act

Bill: 118-hr-2615
Sponsor: Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 
 
No Taxation on PFAS Remediation Act 

 
This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, reimbursements for remediation of contamination by a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Stop the Import of Fentanyl Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2616
Sponsor: Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Stop the Import of Fentanyl Act of 2023

 
This bill establishes within the Drug Enforcement Administration a National Center to Stop the Import of Illicit Synthetic Drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Choices for Stranded Passengers Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2617
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Choices for Stranded Passengers Act of 2023

 
This bill requires air carriers (including foreign air carriers) that cause a significant flight delay or cancellation to provide, in certain circumstances, passengers with alternative transportation.
 
For the purposes of this bill, a domestic flight is considered significantly delayed when the departure or arrival has changed by three or more hours; an international flight to or from the United States is significantly delayed at six or more hours. Further, a qualifying flight is a scheduled flight in an aircraft designed for 31 passenger seats or more.
 
Under the bill, an air carrier that has caused a significant delay or cancellation to a qualifying flight must provide a passenger with an alternative flight on another air carrier at no additional charge if that alternative flight would arrive at the destination before the original flight or before another flight by the original air carrier.
 
This requirement does not apply if the passenger voluntarily chooses (1) to accept alternative ground transportation, provided at no additional charge by the air carrier; or (2) not to travel to the original destination and the air carrier promptly provides a full cash refund for the ticket cost and fees.
 
Passengers must be informed of their rights under this bill when booking a ticket and at the time such a delay or cancellation occurs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Federal Aviation Administration Engagement and Transparency Act

Bill: 118-hr-2618
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Federal Aviation Administration Engagement and Transparency Act

 
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study on the level of responsiveness of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to requests from Members of Congress and the average time frame for responses to the requests. 
 
Further, the FAA must annually brief Congress on (1) the efforts, activities, objectives, and plans of the FAA; and (2) the efforts of the FAA to engage with Congress and the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Tax Fairness for Disaster Victims Act

Bill: 118-hr-2619
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 
 
Tax Fairness for Disaster Victims Act 

 
This bill allows individual taxpayers living in a disaster area to use earned income from a preceding taxable year for purposes of calculating the earned income tax credit. The bill applies if current year income is disrupted by a disaster and is less than the income of the preceding taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2620
Sponsor: Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2023

 
This bill modifies criminal penalties for an offense involving the theft of a firearm from a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer, or from their business premises.
 
Specifically, the bill does the following:
 
 
increases from 10 to 20 years the maximum prison term, and
 
creates a 3- or 5-year mandatory minimum prison term for an offense that occurs during the commission of a burglary or robbery.
 
 
An attempt to commit an offense is subject to the same penalties as a substantive offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Vocational Education Act

Bill: 118-hr-2621
Sponsor: Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-MI-3]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Honoring Vocational Education Act

 
This bill requires the Bureau of the Census to ensure that the Current Population Survey provides for a separate category of educational attainment for Postsecondary Nondegree Awardees.
 

Postsecondary Nondegree Awardee
 is defined as an individual who 
 
 
has received a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent and a recognized postsecondary credential; and
 
has not received an associate, bachelor's, master's, graduate, or professional degree.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to codify certain Securities and Exchange Commission no-action letters that exclude brokers and dealers compensated for certain research services from the definition of investment adviser, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-2622
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Licensing and registrations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 
This bill provides statutory authority for specified Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) guidance allowing broker-dealers to receive payments for research services provided to investment managers. Under current law, broker-dealers that receive payments for performing this service must register as investment advisors. However, the SEC currently waives enforcement against these broker-dealers.

action_date: 2023-07-11
text: 
This bill extends for six months Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) guidance allowing broker-dealers to receive payments for research services provided to investment managers. Under current law, broker-dealers that receive payments for performing this service must register as investment advisors. However, the SEC through guidance currently waives enforcement against these broker-dealers. This waiver is set to expire on July 3, 2023.
 
The SEC must report on the impact of continuation or expiration of this guidance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-12
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3184)
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3184)
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2622.
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3184-3185)
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: Mrs. Wagner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 105.
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-134.
action_date: 2023-07-11
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-134.
action_date: 2023-05-24
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 45 - 2.
action_date: 2023-05-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
PRIMED Act

Bill: 118-hr-2623
Sponsor: Rep. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI-7]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Permit Reform In Mining for Energy and Defense Act or the PRIMED Act

 
This bill makes certain actions taken by the Department of Defense to secure critical materials for energy infrastructure (e.g., minerals) eligible for an expedited environmental review by including those projects within the scope of 
covered projects 
under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Helping Startups Continue To Grow Act

Bill: 118-hr-2624
Sponsor: Rep. Steil, Bryan [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Helping Startups Continue To Grow Act 

 
This bill allows certain issuers of securities regulated as emerging growth companies to continue operating under such regulations, including those related to reduced disclosures and other exemptions, for an additional five years. It also raises the limit of total annual gross revenues under which issuers qualify as emerging growth companies to $2 billion. Finally, under the bill, a company may continue to be considered an emerging growth company even after it becomes a large accelerated filer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To lower the aggregate market value of voting and non-voting common equity necessary for an issuer to qualify as a well-known seasoned issuer.

Bill: 118-hr-2625
Sponsor: Rep. Steil, Bryan [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 
This bill reduces the required aggregate market value of voting and non-voting common equity shares for an issuer of securities to qualify as a well-known seasoned issuer. A well-known seasoned issuer is allowed to make expedited public offerings of securities through automatic shelf registrations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Air Tour and Sport Parachuting Safety Improvement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2626
Sponsor: Rep. Tokuda, Jill N. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Air Tour and Sport Parachuting Safety Improvement Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to update safety standards for commercial air tour operators (i.e., sightseeing airplane and helicopter flights).
 
Within three years of the bill's enactment, all commercial air tour operators, with exceptions, must hold an air carrier certificate or commercial operator certificate. The FAA must implement procedures to improve the process for obtaining these certificates. 
 
The FAA must also issue regulations requiring commercial air tour operators and other specified operators to implement appropriate safety management systems. This is a formal, organization-wide approach to safety risk that includes systematic procedures, practices, and policies.
 
The FAA must issue new or revised regulations requiring that all certificated commercial air tour operators incorporate into their training programs avoidance training for controlled flight into terrain and in-flight loss of control.
 
The FAA must also convene aviation rulemaking committees and, within three years of the bill's enactment, issue final regulations 
 
 
establishing a performance-based standard for flight data monitoring for all commercial air tour operators,
 
requiring all commercial air tour operators to install flight data recording devices and implement a flight data monitoring program, 
 
 establishing methods to provide effective traffic avoidance in identified high-traffic tour areas (e.g., requiring air tour operators to be equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) surveillance technology), and 
 
governing specified issues related to sports parachute operations conducted in the United States.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Increasing Investor Opportunities Act

Bill: 118-hr-2627
Sponsor: Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Financial services and investments
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Increasing Investor Opportunities Act 

 
This bill allows a closed-end fund&#8212;a portfolio of pooled assets with a limited number of shares traded on an exchange&#8212;to increase its investment in private investment funds. 

action_date: 2023-12-12
text: 

Increasing Investor Opportunities Act 

This bill allows a closed-end fund—a portfolio of pooled assets with a limited number of shares traded on an exchange—to increase its investment in private investment funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission is prohibited from limiting the sale or listing of securities of a closed-end fund that invests in private investment funds. This bill also apples to a closed-end company treated as a business development company. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-12-12
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 252.
action_date: 2023-12-12
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-312.
action_date: 2023-12-12
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-312.
action_date: 2023-05-24
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 37 - 11.
action_date: 2023-05-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Employee Profit-Sharing Encouragement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2628
Sponsor: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Employee Profit-Sharing Encouragement Act of 2023

 
This bill denies the business tax deduction for the remuneration of highly-compensated corporate employees unless the corporation has average annual gross receipts of less than $25 million and maintains a plan for making qualified profit-sharing distributions to its employees. The bill defines 
qualified profit-sharing distributions
 as cash distributions under a written employer plan that gives employees who have been employed for at least one year a right to profit-sharing distributions and bases the amount of such distributions on the measure of the receipts, profit, revenues, or earnings of the employer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Filer Voter Act

Bill: 118-hr-2629
Sponsor: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2023-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: 

Tax Filer Voter Registration Act or the Filer Voter Act

 
This bill treats certain tax return preparers as voter registration agencies. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires tax return preparers who prepare at least 100 individual tax returns in a taxable year to provide voter registration application forms to their customers. The form must be made available by (1) displaying copies of the form in the preparer's office for customers who receive in-person services, and (2) providing a hyperlink to the form for customers who receive online services.
 
The bill also outlines the responsibilities of the Department of the Treasury to enable certified volunteer tax preparers to meet the requirements of the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2023-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-13
text: Introduced in House