jiayi-li23/proxann_data huggingface dataset:
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2013-06-06 00:00:00

Internet Gambling Regulation, Enforcement, and Consumer Protection Act of 2013 - Prohibits operation of an Internet gambling facility that offers services to persons in the United States, except as authorized under this Act. Provides exceptions with respect to licensed race tracks, operators offering lottery transactions or services relating to bets or wagers by a state or Indian tribe, and persons engaged outside the United States in bet or wager activities that are initiated, received, or made solely by individuals outside the United States.

Establishes within the Treasury the Office of Internet Gambling Oversight, headed by an Executive Director. Outlines requirements for the designation of entities for the regulation and oversight of authorized Internet gambling facilities. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to withdraw such designation in appropriate circumstances. Includes the Office as such an entity.

Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out an application and licensing program for such facilities, including suitability qualifications and disqualification standards. Provides for disciplinary procedures and civil penalties against licensee violators.

Requires each designated entity, before issuing a facility license, to provide for the development of a compulsive gaming, responsible gaming, and self-exclusion program, to be implemented by each licensee.

Allows gambling at such facilities only with respect to bets or wagers from individuals located in states and Indian lands that have opted-in for participation in such gaming. Provides for opt-in and opt-out elections.

Prohibits this Act from being construed to authorize a licensee to accept a wager on any sporting event in violation of a federal or state law.

Makes it a violation of this Act to operate a place of public accommodation in which computer terminals or similar devices are made available principally for accessing such facilities.

Prohibits Internet gambling cheating and the use of cheating devices and provides enforcement authority.

Authorizes designated entities to issue initial licenses before the authorized date of first issuance under this Act (270 days after enactment).

Requires annual reports from the Secretary to Congress on the licensing and regulation of such facilities and on practices to protect consumers with respect to such gambling.

Directs the Secretary to require the independent testing of hardware, software, communications equipment, and other necessary devices for such facilities to ensure their integrity, accountability, randomness of play, and network security.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and implement programs for the identification, prevention, and treatment of pathological and other problem gambling.

Directs the Treasury Secretary to compile and make publicly available datasets on player gambling behavior.

Provides for enforcement of provisions of this Act through the federal criminal code and federal financial transaction requirements.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Sports and recreation
Date: 2013-11-12 00:00:00

Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act or the FANS Act - Amends the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to deny the antitrust exemption for joint agreements covering the telecasting of sports contests to any league of clubs participating in professional football, baseball, basketball, or hockey contests that does not: (1) expressly prohibit sponsored telecast licensees of such league, and any agreement with any video licensee, from intentionally removing the live content of such league from a multichannel video programming distributor when such removal occurs during, or is related to a negotiation regarding, carriage of the league's games by such distributor; or (2) make a sponsored telecast of a game that is played in the home territory of a member club available to consumers, using an Internet platform, in any territory in which the game is not available for private viewing through a local television broadcast station or any available multichannel video programming distributor. Repeals the exception that allows the antitrust exemption for such a joint agreement that prohibits televising games within the home territory of a member club on a day when such club is playing at home.

Amends the Clayton Act to: (1) subject the conduct, acts, practices, or agreements of persons in the business of organized professional major league baseball (currently, only such conduct, acts, practices, or agreements directly relating to or affecting employment of major league baseball players at the major league level) to the antitrust laws to the same extent that such conduct, acts, practices, or agreements engaged in by persons in any other professional sports business affecting interstate commerce are subject to such laws; and (2) repeal provisions granting only a major league baseball player standing to sue. Eliminates provisions specifying that such Act does not create, permit, or imply a cause of action by which to challenge under the antitrust laws: (1) the relationship between the Office of the Commissioner and franchise owners, the marketing or sales of the entertainment product of organized professional baseball, and the licensing of intellectual property rights owned or held by organized professional baseball teams; or (2) any conduct, acts, practices, or agreements protected by the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-11-14 00:00:00

Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of Internet gambling transactions, to:

 impose a tax on Internet gambling licensees equal to 4% of all funds deposited by their customers while located within the United States into accounts maintained by such licensees; impose an additional 50% tax on unauthorized bets or wagers; require Internet gambling licensees to keep daily records of gambling deposits and file informational returns identifying themselves and the individuals placing bets or wagers with them; require Internet gambling licensees to pay state and Indian tribal governments an amount equal to the monthly pro rata state and Indian tribal government online gambling tax; impose a tax on each Internet gambling licensee equal to 12% of all funds deposited by customers making deposits while located outside the United States into an account maintained by such licensee; require withholding of tax on net Internet gambling winnings and on the gross amount of winnings of nonresident aliens; extend the excise tax on wagers to include wagers placed within any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States by a U.S. citizen or resident; and make income earned by nonresident alien individuals and foreign corporations that are licensees of, or operating, an Internet gambling facility subject to U.S. taxation. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to states to carry out an American Heritage Program through state arts agencies. Allocates .5% of the tax revenues received after December 31, 2012, that are attributable to Internet gambling to the American Heritage Block Grant Fund to finance the American Heritage Program.

Amends the Social Security Act to establish the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund to finance state plans for transitional education and job training assistance to individuals who are, or were formerly, in foster care. Allocates 25% of the tax revenues received after December 31, 2012, that are attributable to Internet gambling to the Trust Fund.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-01-29 00:00:00

Properly Reducing Overexemptions for Sports Act or the PRO Sports Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove professional football leagues from the list of tax-exempt organizations.

Provides that no organization or entity shall be treated as tax-exempt if it: (1) is a professional sports league, organization, or association, a substantial activity of which is to foster national or international professional sports competitions (including by managing league business affairs, officiating or providing referees, coordinating schedules, managing sponsorships or broadcast sales, operating loan programs for competition facilities, or overseeing player conduct); and (2) has annual gross receipts in excess of $10 million.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2014-03-26 00:00:00

Restoration of America's Wire Act - Amends provisions of the federal criminal code, commonly known as the Wire Act, to provide that the prohibition against transmission of wagering information shall apply to any bet or wager, or information assisting in the placing of any bet or wager (thus making such prohibition applicable to all types of gambling activities, including internet gambling). States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) preempt any state law prohibiting gambling; or (2) alter, limit, or extend the relationship between the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 and other federal laws currently in effect, the ability of a state licensed lottery retailer to make in-person, computer-generated retail lottery sales, or the relationship between federal laws and state charitable gaming laws.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-05-01 00:00:00

Stop Penalizing Taxpayers for Sports Owner Fouls Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny to an individual who owns a professional sports franchise a tax deduction for any fine or similar penalty paid by such owner to the professional sports league or association.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2014-05-01 00:00:00

Christen O'Donnell Equestrian Helmet Safety Act of 2013 [sic] - Establishes an interim standard for equestrian helmets manufactured nine months after enactment of this Act, pending establishment of a final standard.

Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to begin rulemaking proceedings for development of a final standard. Excludes such proceedings from specified laws governing the CPSC's reliance on voluntary standards, the development of consumer product safety rules, and the CPSC's regulation of consumer products in accordance with other laws. Prohibits application of judicial review provisions to any standard issued pursuant to such proceedings.

Requires any failure to meet the interim standard to be treated as a violation of a consumer product safety standard promulgated under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA). Requires any final standard to be considered a CPSA consumer product safety standard.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-06-20 00:00:00

Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the accelerated depreciation (seven-year recovery period) of motorsports entertainment complexes.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-07-31 00:00:00

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit the imposition of a tax on any wager on a sporting event if that wager is authorized under the law of the state in which it is accepted.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Sports and recreation
Date: 2014-08-01 00:00:00

Professional Boxing Amendments Act of 2013 - Amends the Professional Boxing Safety Act to: (1) authorize a tribal organization to establish a boxing commission; (2) prohibit arranging, promoting, or fighting in a match unless the match is approved by the United States Boxing Commission (USBC) and held in a state or on tribal land that regulates matches in accordance with USBC standards; (3) require specified pre-fight boxer physical examinations and to require the continuous presence during any match of an ambulance and emergency medical personnel; (4) provide for boxing registration with the appropriate boxing commission of an Indian tribe; (5) require a health and safety disclosure to a boxer when issuing an identification card and to establish procedures for review of a summary suspension; (6) require the USBC to develop guidelines for boxing contracting requirements and for rating professional boxers; (7) require the sanctioning organization for a match and its promoter to provide specified disclosures; (8) prohibit a promoter from arranging a championship match or a match scheduled unless all participating judges and referees are by the USBC; (9) require the USBC to establish and maintain a registry of comprehensive medical records and medical denials or suspensions for every licensed boxer; and (10) apply conflict-of-interest provisions to USBC officers and employees.

Establishes the USBC within the Department of Commerce to: (1) protect the health, safety, and general interests of boxers and to ensure integrity in professional boxing; (2) establish standards for, and issue, suspend, and revoke, boxing licenses; and (3) establish a national computerized registry of boxing personnel.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Sports and recreation
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00

United States Anti-Doping Agency Reauthorization Act - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to: (1) authorize appropriations for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for FY2014-FY2020, (2) require that the Agency be recognized worldwide as the independent national anti-doping organization for the United States, and (3) replace the Agency's role in preventing the use by U.S. amateur athletes of performance-enhancing genetic modifications accomplished through gene doping with a role in preventing the use of prohibited performance-enhancing methods adopted by the Agency.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-11-12 00:00:00

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth a special rule to deny tax-exempt status to a professional sports league that promotes, or allows a member club or franchise to promote, the use of the term "redskin" in connection with any team or club connected with such league.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Education
Date: 2014-11-19 00:00:00

Establishes the Presidential Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics to review, analyze, and report to the President and Congress on the following issues related to intercollegiate athletics:

 the interaction of athletics and academics, the financing of intercollegiate athletics, the recruitment and retention of student athletes, oversight and governance practices, health and safety protections for student athletes, due process and other protections related to the enforcement of student athlete rules and regulations, and any other issues the Commission considers relevant to understanding the state of intercollegiate athletics.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-04-08 00:00:00

Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act of 2013 - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit any person from knowingly attending an animal fighting venture or causing a minor (a person under the age of 18) to attend such a venture.

Subjects any person who: (1) knowingly attends such venture to a fine and/or imprisonment for up to a year for each violation, and (2) knowingly causes a minor to attend such venture to a fine and/or imprisonment for up to three years for each violation.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Sports and recreation
Date: 2013-05-16 00:00:00

Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2013 - Requires: (1) there to be an independent anti-doping organization with responsibility for ensuring the integrity and safety of horse races that are the subject of interstate off-track wagers, and (2) the independent anti-doping organization designated pursuant to the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to serve as such organization.

Sets forth as the duties of such organization: (1) developing, publishing, and maintaining rules regarding substances, methods, and treatments that may and may not be administered to a horse participating in such a race; (2) implementing programing relating to anti-doping education, research, testing, and adjudication to prevent any horse participating in such a race from racing under the effect of any prohibited substance, method, or treatment; and (3) excluding from participation in any such race any person who is determined to have violated such a rule or who is subject to a suspension from horse racing activities by any state racing commission.

Prescribes conditions under which such organization may: (1) suspend the period a person is excluded from participation; and (2) permit the use of furosemide by a horse participating in such a race during the two-year period following enactment of this Act.

Permits a host racing association to conduct a horse race that is the subject of an interstate off-track wager, and permits an interstate off-track wager to be accepted by an off-track betting system, only if consent is obtained from such organization. Requires such organization to ensure that all costs incurred in carrying its duties are defrayed pursuant to agreements for such consent.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-09-18 00:00:00

Properly Reducing Overexemptions for Sports Act or the PRO Sports Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove professional football leagues from the list of tax-exempt organizations.

Provides that no organization or entity shall be treated as tax-exempt if it: (1) is a professional sports league, organization, or association, a substantial activity of which is to foster national or international professional sports competitions (including by managing league business affairs, officiating or providing referees, coordinating schedules, managing sponsorships or broadcast sales, operating loan programs for competition facilities, or overseeing player conduct); and (2) has annual gross receipts in excess of $10 million.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Sports and recreation
Date: 2013-11-18 00:00:00

Furthering Access and Networks for Sports Act or the FANS Act - Amends the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to deny the antitrust exemption for joint agreements covering the telecasting of sports contests to any league of clubs participating in professional football, baseball, basketball, or hockey contests that does not: (1) expressly prohibit sponsored telecast licensees of such league, and any agreement with any video licensee, from intentionally removing the live content of such league from a multichannel video programming distributor when such removal occurs during, or is related to a negotiation regarding, carriage of the league's games by such distributor; or (2) make a sponsored telecast of a game that is played in the home territory of a member club available to consumers, using an Internet platform, in any territory in which the game is not available for private viewing through a local television broadcast station or any available multichannel video programming distributor. Repeals the exception that allows the antitrust exemption for such a joint agreement that prohibits televising games within the home territory of a member club on a day when such club is playing at home.

Amends the Clayton Act to: (1) subject the conduct, acts, practices, or agreements of persons in the business of organized professional major league baseball (currently, only such conduct, acts, practices, or agreements directly relating to or affecting employment of major league baseball players at the major league level) to the antitrust laws to the same extent that such conduct, acts, practices, or agreements engaged in by persons in any other professional sports business affecting interstate commerce are subject to such laws; and (2) repeal provisions granting only a major league baseball player standing to sue. Eliminates provisions specifying that such Act does not create, permit, or imply a cause of action by which to challenge under the antitrust laws: (1) the relationship between the Office of the Commissioner and franchise owners, the marketing or sales of the entertainment product of organized professional baseball, and the licensing of intellectual property rights owned or held by organized professional baseball teams; or (2) any conduct, acts, practices, or agreements protected by the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-12-13 00:00:00

Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the classification, for depreciation purposes, of any motorsports entertainment complex as seven-year property.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-02-12 00:00:00

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, the value of any medal or prize money received on account of competition in the Olympic Games or Paralympic Games.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2014-03-26 00:00:00

Restoration of America's Wire Act - Amends provisions of the federal criminal code, commonly known as the Wire Act, to provide that the prohibition against transmission of wagering information shall apply to any bet or wager, or information assisting in the placing of any bet or wager (thus making such prohibition applicable to all types of gambling activities, including Internet gambling). States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) preempt any state law prohibiting gambling; or (2) alter, limit, or extend the relationship between the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 and other federal laws currently in effect, the ability of a state licensed lottery retailer to make in-person, computer-generated retail lottery sales, or the relationship between federal laws and state charitable gaming laws.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Sports and recreation
Date: 2014-05-14 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

United States Anti-Doping Agency Reauthorization Act - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to: (1) authorize appropriations for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for FY2014-FY2020, (2) require that the Agency be recognized worldwide as the independent national anti-doping organization for the United States, and (3) replace the Agency's role in preventing the use by U.S. amateur athletes of performance-enhancing genetic modifications accomplished through gene doping with a role in preventing the use of prohibited performance-enhancing methods adopted by the Agency.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-09-16 00:00:00

Securing Assistance for Victims' Empowerment (SAVE) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the tax exemption for professional football leagues, and (2) deny a tax exemption for certain professional sports leagues which have annual gross receipts exceeding $10 million.

Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to provide for an increased authorization of appropriations in FY2015 for the family violence prevention and services grant program.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Sports Regulation
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth a special rule to deny tax-exempt status to a professional sports league that promotes, or allows a member club or franchise to promote, the use of the term "redskin" in connection with any team or club connected with such league.