niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Act of 2011 - Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to expand requirements for the operation and maintenance of the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel, Colorado, to require the Secretary of the Interior to take any action necessary to maintain the structural integrity of the Tunnel to maintain public safety and to prevent an uncontrolled release of water from the tunnel portal. Makes the Secretary responsible for the operation and maintenance of the water treatment plant, including authorized sludge disposal. Authorizes the Secretary to offer to enter into one or more contracts with any appropriate individual or entity for the conduct of any required service.

Includes within the Tunnel any surface water diverted into it and water collected by the dewatering relief well installed in June 2008. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) to enter into an agreement with any other entity or government agency to provide funding for an increase in any operation, maintenance, replacement, capital improvement, or expansion cost that is necessary to improve or expand the Treatment Plant; and (2) upon entering into an agreement, to make any necessary capital improvement to or expansion of the water treatment plant.

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consult with the Secretary regarding each feature of the proposed new or amended Record of Decision for operable unit 6 of the California Gulch National Priorities List Site that may require any alteration to, or otherwise affect the operation and maintenance of, the Tunnel or the water treatment plant. Authorizes the Secretary to implement any improvement to the Tunnel or expansion of the plant as a result of a new or amended Record of Decision for operable unit 6 only upon entering into an agreement with the EPA Administrator or other entity or agency to provide funding for the improvement or expansion.
Output: A bill to amend the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment of 1992 to require the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to take actions to improve environmental conditions in the vicinity of the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel in Lake County, Colorado, and for other purposes.
Veterans Medical Care Revenue Enhancement Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) conduct a demonstration project for the improvement of business practices of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA); and (2) enter into a performance-based contract for a contractor to carry out functions specified in this Act.

Requires the Secretary to conduct the project at two VHA medical centers within the same service area, selected from among medical centers located in those areas that the Secretary determines have relatively low rates of recovery or collection of indebtedness from third-party payors.

Sets forth provisions regarding the selection and functions of the contractor, including requiring the contractor to establish a plan to standardize and coordinate all activities related to billing for health care furnished to veterans for non-service-connected disabilities, and a database containing third-party payor information for veterans receiving health care.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) ensure that a VHA employee is designated to be the full-time project manager for the project and that such employee's duty station is at one of the medical centers at which the project is conducted; and (2) administer the project so that during the period of the conduct of the project (two years) there is no reduction in full-time equivalent employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs at the medical centers at which the project is conducted that is attributable to the conduct of the project.
Output: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a demonstration project for the improvement of business practices of the Veterans Health Administration.
Shelter, Land, and Urban Management (SLUM) Assistance Act of 2011 - Authorizes the President to furnish technical assistance and financial support to developing countries for affordable housing and urban development.

Directs the President, through the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to develop a strategy to provide affordable housing and sustainable urban development in developing countries.
Output: To authorize assistance for affordable housing and sustainable urban development in developing countries, and for other purposes.
Education Stability for Foster Youth Act This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require a state plan for academic content and achievement standards to describe how the state will ensure the educational stability of children in foster care. Specifically, a state plan must include assurances that: (1) a foster child will remain or be enrolled in the child&rsquo;s school of origin absent a determination that such enrollment is not in the child&rsquo;s best interest; (2) if such a determination is made, the child will be immediately enrolled in a new school, which must immediately contact the child&rsquo;s previous school to obtain relevant records; and (3) the state will designate a point of contact for child welfare agencies, who shall also oversee implementation of the state&rsquo;s responsibilities under the bill.  Relatedly, a local educational agency (LEA) plan must provide assurances that the LEA will develop and implement procedures governing the provision and funding of transportation services necessary to maintain a foster child&rsquo;s enrollment in the child&rsquo;s school of origin. This bill amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to alter the definition of &ldquo;homeless children and youths&rdquo; to no longer include children who are awaiting foster care placement.
Output: Education Stability for Foster Youth Act
Nation Building Here at Home Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to establish a transformational infrastructure competitive grant program to award grants to state and local governments, transit agencies, and port authorities for certain public transportation projects (including water infrastructure projects) with potential to significantly impact a metropolitan area, a region, or all of the United States.

Specifies the federal share of project costs at 100%.

Requires the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in projects funded under this Act to have been produced in the United States, except in specified circumstances.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a Nation Building Here at Home Financing Initiative.
Output: To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a transformational infrastructure competitive grant program, and for other purposes.
Cutting Red Tape, Green-Lighting Small Businesses Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer with not less than 2 or more than 150 employees in a calendar year a business-related tax credit for the cost of up to 5 newly-hired employees who are employed, on average, at least 30 hours per week. Makes such credit available to tax-exempt eligible small employers. Terminates such credit for wages paid after December 31, 2015. Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) determine, for a new small business concern, what SBA applications, submissions, or other paperwork are not essential to file during the first year of operation of such small business concern; and (2) make rules for the waiver of such filings. 
Output: Cutting Red Tape, Green-Lighting Small Businesses Act of 2013
OPIC Termination Act - Abolishes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).  Transfers certain OPIC functions to the Office of Management and Budget with respect to existing contracts and agreements until they expire.
Output: OPIC Termination Act
Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through April 30, 2010: (1) excise taxes on aviation fuels and air transportation of persons and property; and (2) the expenditure authority for the Airport and Airway Trust Fund.

Authorizes appropriations for the seven-month period from October 1, 2009, through April 30, 2010, for airport improvement program (AIP) projects, including project grant authority. Sets forth a formula for calculating the apportionment of AIP funding.

Extends through April 30, 2010, various airport development projects, including: (1) the pilot program for passenger facility fees at nonhub airports; (2) small airport grants for airports located in the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau; (3) the temporary increase to 95% in the government share of certain AIP project costs; and (4) the funding of Midway Island airport development.

Extends through April 30, 2010, state and local land use compatibility projects under the AIP program.

Extends through April 30, 2010, the authority of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to apply for an airport development grant and impose a passenger facility fee.

Extends through April 30, 2010, Department of Transportation (DOT) insurance coverage for domestic and foreign-flag air carriers. Allows further extension through July 31, 2010.

Extends through July 31, 2010, air carrier liability limits for injuries to passengers resulting from acts of terrorism.

Extends through April 30, 2010, certain competitive access assurance requirements for large or medium hub airport sponsors applying for AIP grants.

Extends for the seven-month period from October 1, 2009, through April 30, 2010, the authorization of appropriations for: (1) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operations; (2) air navigation facilities and equipment; and (3) research, engineering, and development.
Output: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to amend title 49, United States Code, to extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, and for other purposes.
Freedom to Invest Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the election allowed to a U.S. corporation to deduct dividends received from a controlled foreign corporation to the corporation's last taxable year beginning before the enactment of this Act or the first taxable year beginning during the one-year period beginning on such enactment date, and (2) reduce the amount of such tax deduction for corporations that fail to maintain specified employment levels for full-time U.S. employees.
Output: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a temporary dividends received deduction for 2011 or 2012.
Plain Language in Health Insurance Act of 2009 - Requires any health insurance issuer, health plan, and federal health care program to use plain language in any publicly distributed document.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on implementing such requirements.
Output: To enhance citizen awareness of insurance information and services by establishing that insurance documents issued to the public must be written clearly, and for other purposes.
Court of Federal Claims Administration Act of 1994 - Amends the Federal judicial code to allow a judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (Court) who is not reappointed to continue in office until a successor is appointed and takes office. 
(Sec. 3) Grants judges of the Court authority to conduct proceedings in the district courts of territories to the same extent as duly appointed judges of those courts upon request by or on behalf of a territorial court and with the concurrence of the chief judge of the Court and the chief judge of the judicial circuit involved based upon a finding of need. 
(Sec. 4) Exempts retired judges of the Court from residence restrictions.  Provides that the place where a retired judge maintains the actual abode in which such judge customarily lives shall be the judge's official duty station. 
(Sec. 5) Provides for Court membership on the Judicial Conference of the United States. 
(Sec. 6) Authorizes the chief judge of the Court to summon the Court judges to a judicial conference annually to consider the business of, and improvements in the administration of justice in, the Court.  Directs the Court to provide by its rules or by general order for representation and active participation at such conference by members of the bar. 
(Sec. 7) Authorizes the chief judge of the Court to recall a formerly disabled judge who retires under the disability provisions of the Court's retirement system if, in the chief judge's view, such judge has recovered sufficiently to render judicial service. 
(Sec. 8) Grants the Court:  (1) the power to grant injunctive and declaratory relief; (2) jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim by or against, or dispute with, a contractor arising under specified provisions of the Contract Disputes Act of 1978; and (3) ancillary jurisdiction under the Federal Tort Claims Act when a claim is directly related to one otherwise within the Court's jurisdiction. 
(Sec. 9) Provides that Court judges over age 65 who are on senior status will receive the same treatment as other Federal trial judges on senior status insofar as Social Security taxes and annuity payments are concerned. 
(Sec. 10) Deems a Court judge to be a judicial officer eligible for coverage under annuity, insurance, and other programs available to other Federal trial judges, including the program for continued Federal life insurance coverage after retirement.
Output: Court of Federal Claims Administration Act of 1994
Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to register an emergency medical services (EMS) agency to administer controlled substances if the agency submits an application demonstrating that it is authorized to conduct such activity in the state in which the agency practices. The DEA may deny an application if it determines that the registration is inconsistent with the public interest. An EMS agency may obtain a single registration in each state instead of a separate registration for each location. A registered EMS agency may deliver, store, and receive controlled substances, subject to specified conditions. An EMS professional of a registered EMS agency may administer controlled substances in schedules II, III, IV, or V outside the physical presence of a medical director if such administration is authorized under state law and pursuant to a standing or verbal order, subject to specified conditions. The bill specifies that a hospital-based EMS agency (i.e., an EMS agency owned or operated by a hospital) may continue to administer controlled substances under the hospital's DEA registration. 
Output: Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016
Directs the Attorney General to adjust the status of specified Persian Gulf evacuees to permanent resident.
Output: For the relief of certain Persian Gulf evacuees.
Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2014 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to replace the current windfall elimination provision (WEP) (that reduces the Social Security benefits of workers who also have pension benefits from employment not covered by Social Security) for individuals who: (1) become eligible for old-age insurance benefits after 2016 or would attain age 62 after 2016 and become eligible for disability insurance benefits after 2016, (2) subsequently become entitled to such benefits, and (3) have earnings derived from noncovered service performed after 1977. Establishes a new formula for the treatment of noncovered earnings in determining Social Security benefits. Prescribes a second formula to modify WEP for current beneficiaries. Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to recover overpayments from certain individuals. 
Output: Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2014
Truth in Regulations Act of 2017 This bill requires agencies to have written procedures to ensure that an issuance of policy guidance documents (other than regulatory actions) is approved by each appropriate senior agency official unless a supervisor or agency head has agreed to an employee's justification to deviate from the requirements. An agency must also maintain on its website a list of, links to, and a means for the public to comment on and request issuance, modification, or rescission of, such documents. A guidance document may not include mandatory language unless: (1) the agency is describing a statutory or regulatory requirement, (2) the language is addressed to agency employees, or (3) the prohibition against that mandatory language prevents agency consideration of a position advanced by an affected private party. The bill requires agencies to publish drafts of guidance documents for public comment.  The bill replaces the &quot;good cause&quot; exception to proposed rulemaking notice and publication requirements with an exception that applies if the agency determines that an imminent threat to public health or safety or a similar exigent circumstance exists. When such exception is applied, the agency, within 18 months after the rule takes effect, shall: (1) provide for a period in which interested persons may submit written data, views, or arguments; and (2) consider such submissions and, if appropriate, repeal or amend the rule.
Output: Truth in Regulations Act of 2017
Fitness for Life Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive, renewable four-year grants to ten institutions of higher education (IHEs) for the expansion of their master's degree in physical education programs.

Requires IHEs to use the grant funds to: (1) teach students to incorporate technology and innovative teaching practices into physical education instruction and encourage children to be more physically active outside the classroom; (2) develop program curricula that link practice and theory; (3) partner with local educational agencies (LEAs) that serve schools where their students are to serve as full-time student teachers and most of their instruction is to occur; (4) extend their programs into the communities served by their partner LEAs; (5) actively promote their programs to prospective students; and (6) engage in such other activities the Secretary requires.

Directs the Secretary, in developing the grant program, to consult with an IHE that for the past five years has: (1) offered a master's degree in physical education program that emphasizes the incorporation of technology into physical education instruction; and (2) partnered with an LEA that serves schools in which its master's degree candidates serve as student teachers.
Output: To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to 10 institutions of higher education for the expansion of master's degree in physical education programs that emphasize technology and innovative teaching practices.
Commercial Fishing, Farm, and Ranch Risk Management Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a Commercial Fishing, Farm, and Ranch Risk Management Account (CFFR Account) to provide farmers and commercial fisherman with additional capital for investment and to protect against operating losses. Allows a tax deduction for cash contributions to a CFFR Account, limited to 20% of the taxpayer's taxable income attributable to an active farm or commercial fishing business. Imposes a 10% additional tax on amounts in a CFFR Account which are not distributed within 10 years after the establishment of such Account.
Output: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for Commercial Fishing, Farm, and Ranch Risk Management Accounts, and for other purposes.
Pima County Land Adjustment Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to convey to Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC, the Sahuarita property, which consists of approximately 1,280 acres, in exchange for the Empirita-Simonson property, which consists of approximately 2,490 acres, and the Bloom property, which consists of approximately 160 acres. Requires the Secretary to modify the boundaries of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area to include the Empirita-Simonson property and the boundaries of the Saguaro National Park to include the Bloom property.

Requires the Secretary to convey the Tumamoc Hill property, which consists of approximately 290 acres, to Pima County, Arizona, upon the county paying the value of such property to the State of Arizona, State Land Department.

Modifies the boundary of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area to exclude the 40-acre tract presently leased by the Bureau of Land Management to the town of Elgin, Arizona, for a sanitary landfill.
Output: To provide for a land exchange involving certain Bureau of Land Management lands in Pima County, Arizona, for the purpose of consolidating Federal land ownership within the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, and for other purposes.
Urban Watershed Restoration Act of 1994 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a National Urban Watershed Restoration Program to be administered by each State which has a demonstrated successful urban river restoration program or by the Regional EPA Administrator in States without such programs. 
Allocates at least 25 percent of funds made available for nonpoint source pollution management to the Program.  Provides for grants and technical assistance for projects meeting this Act's requirements. Limits the Federal share of a project's cost to 60 percent of the total cost. 
Sets forth conditions for project selection. 
Gives priority to projects that assist in the:  (1) meeting of municipal stormwater discharge and combined sewer overflow permit program requirements;  (2) implementation of national estuary plans; and (3) development and implementation of stream protection measures and monitoring.  Establishes other factors with respect to priority consideration, including that a project will be carried out in a low-income area and will correct a problem which contributes to economic, social, and environmental degradation. 
Lists projects eligible for funding under the Program.
Output: Urban Watershed Restoration Act of 1994
SBDC Colonias Outreach Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize an applicant funded by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a small business development center (SBDC) and that is in a state along the United States-Mexico border that has individuals residing in colonias (areas comprised of low- or very low-income families and usually lacking basic services such as clean water, roads, sewage, schools, and law enforcement) to apply for grants to provide services to assist with outreach, development, and enhancement of small business startups and expansions within colonias.
Output: To amend the Small Business Act to expand and improve the assistance provided by Small Business Development Centers to Colonias.
Model T Ford Automobile Commemorative Coin Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Model T Ford Automobile, up to 500,000 $1 coins emblematic of the Model T Ford and the assembly line.

Subjects coin sales to a surcharge of $10 per coin.

Requires specified distributions of surcharges to: (1) the Automobile National Heritage Area Partnership Inc. for creating an endowment for national Model T educational programs; and (2) the Edison Institute (also known as "The Henry Ford"), in Dearborn, Michigan, a National Historic Landmark, for creating an endowment for educational programs associated with the Model T Ford Automobile.
Output: To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the Model T Ford Automobile and the 100th anniversary of the Highland Park Plant, Michigan, the birthplace of the assembly line, and for other purposes.
Dollar-for-Dollar Deficit Reduction Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in the event of a near breach of the current $14.294 trillion public debt limit, to issue a debt limit warning to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Ways and Means that includes a determination as to when extraordinary measures may be necessary in order to prolong the funding of the federal government in the absence of a debt limit increase. Requires any formal presidential request to increase the public debt limit to include the amount of the proposed debt limit increase and be accompanied by proposed legislation to reduce spending over the sum of the current and following 10 years by an amount equal to or greater than the amount of the requested debt limit increase. Prohibits net interest savings from being counted towards the spending reductions. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in both chambers to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that increases the statutory debt limit unless it contains such net spending reductions. Prohibits Congress from voting on any measure that increases the public debt limit unless the cost estimate of that measure prepared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has been publicly available on the CBO website for at least 24 hours. Permits waiver or suspension of this prohibition, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
Output: Dollar-for-Dollar Deficit Reduction Act
Middle Class Tax Cut Act - Title I: Temporary Extension of Tax Relief - (Sec. 101) Extends through 2013 for an individual taxpayer whose adjusted gross income is less than the applicable threshold amount (i.e., $200,000 for individual taxpayers, $225,000 for heads of household, and $250,000 for married couples filing a joint tax return) the tax rate reductions and other tax benefits of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.

Modifies individual income tax brackets for 2013 to reduce income tax for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income is less than the applicable threshold amount and to increase the income tax rate for taxpayers above such threshold amount. Provides for an inflation adjustment to the applicable threshold amounts for calendar years beginning after 2012. Exempts taxpayers whose adjusted gross income is less than the applicable threshold amount from the phase-out of personal exemptions and itemized deductions.

(Sec. 102) Extends through 2013 for an individual taxpayer whose adjusted gross income is less than the applicable threshold amount the reduction in the tax rate for dividend and capital gain income enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.

Increases to 20% the tax rate for capital gains income for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds the applicable threshold amount.

(Sec. 103) Extends through 2013: (1) the increased American Opportunity tax credit, (2) the increase in the refundable portion of the child tax credit, (3) the increased earned income tax credit percentage for three or more qualifying children, and (4) the disregard of tax credits and refunds in determining eligibility for federal and federally-assisted programs (i.e., means tested programs).

(Sec. 104) Extends to taxable years beginning in 2013 a $250,000 expensing allowance for depreciable business assets, including computer software. Increases to $800,000 the threshold for a phase-out of the amount of such expensing allowance.

Title II: Alternative Minimum Tax Relief - (Sec. 201) Extends to taxable years beginning in 2012 the increased exemption from the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for individual taxpayers.

(Sec. 202) Extends to taxable years beginning in 2012 the offset against the AMT for certain nonrefundable personal tax credits.

Title III: Budgetary Effects - Provides that the budgetary effects of this Act shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 or any Senate PAYGO scorecard.
Output: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief to middle-class families.
Michigan Lighthouse and Maritime Heritage Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the National Park Service Midwest Regional Office, to study and report on Michigan maritime heritage resource preservation and interpretation, including: (1) potential economic and tourism benefits of preservation of these resources; (2) suitable and feasible options for long-term protection of these resources; (3) the manner in which the public can best learn about and experience these resources; and (4) ways of linking national, State, and regional and local areas and sites into a Michigan Maritime Heritage Destination Network.
Output: A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of maritime sites in the State of Michigan.
Extended Unemployment Benefits Reform Act of 2012 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (relating to approval of state unemployment compensation [UC] laws) to prohibit state payment of extended UC to an individual, even under a temporary program, for any week in which he or she does not: (1) perform at least 20 hours of unpaid public service to a charitable organization, except in specified circumstances; and (2) engage in at least 20 hours of active job searching.

Authorizes a state to reduce the required 20 hours of active job searching, and prescribe alternative job search requirements, for any individual who has met both the public service and active job searching requirements for at least 12 weeks.
Output: A bill to require participation in public service and engagement in an active job search as conditions for receipt of extended unemployment benefits.
International Indigenous Peoples Protection Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to ensure that:  (1) U.S. foreign policy and foreign assistance promote the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples throughout the world; and (2) U.S. foreign assistance is not provided for any project or program detrimental to indigenous or tribal peoples' rights or livelihood. 
Requires the Administrator to prepare and submit to the Congress a baseline report on indigenous and tribal peoples in developing countries, including a discussion of the effects of U.S. bilateral and multilateral assistance. Requires AID to use nongovernmental organizations to monitor and analyze the situation of indigenous and tribal peoples in developing countries on a regular basis. 
Requires the Administrator to prepare and submit to the Congress annual reports concerning the monitoring of indigenous and tribal peoples and updating of the required baseline report. 
Requires the Secretary of State to include in each annual human rights report submitted to the Congress a discussion of each country's observance of and respect for the human rights of the indigenous and tribal peoples in that country.
Output: International Indigenous Peoples Protection Act of 1993
Knife Owners' Protection Act of 2014 - Allows any individual who is not otherwise prohibited by federal law from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a knife to transport a knife from any state or place where such individual may lawfully possess, carry, or transport such a knife to any other state or place where such individual may lawfully do so: (1) by motor vehicle if the knife is not directly accessible from the passenger compartment or is in a locked container, glove compartment, or console; or (2) by other means over land or through water or the air if the knife is in a locked container. Excludes the transport of a knife with the intent to commit an offense punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year involving the use or threatened use of force against another person or with knowledge, or reasonable cause to believe, that such an offense is to be committed in the course of, or arising from, the journey. Authorizes an individual transporting a knife in accordance with such requirements to have a knife accessible while staying in any form of temporary lodging. Allows an individual to carry a knife or tool that is designed for enabling escape in an emergency and that incorporates a blunt tipped safety blade or a guarded blade or both for cutting safety belts in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle without being secured in a locked container, glove compartment, or console, except in the passenger cabin of aircraft whose passengers are subject to airport screening procedures of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Establishes a cause of action by individuals subjected to deprivation of rights provided under this Act. Requires the court to award reasonable attorney's fees to the prevailing party if an individual asserts this Act as a claim or defense.
Output: Knife Owners' Protection Act of 2014
American Angler Preservation Act - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to require each scientific and statistical committee of the eight Regional Fishery Management Councils to provide its respective Council with ongoing risk neutral scientific advice (current law does not specify that such advice be risk neutral) for fishery management decisions.

Prohibits such a committee from recommending to increase or decrease an annual catch limit by 20% or greater unless the recommendation has been approved in a peer review process conducted exclusively by nongovernmental entities.

Requires fishery management plans, amendments, or regulations for overfished fisheries to specify a time period for ending overfishing and rebuilding the fishery that is as short as practicable (under current law, as short as possible). Modifies the exceptions to the requirement that such period not exceed ten years.

Requires consideration, in evaluating progress to end overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks, of factors other than commercial and recreational fishing.

Requires, when the Secretary of Commerce extends the rebuilding period under specified provisions, that the maximum rebuilding time not exceed the sum of the initial ten-year period, the expected time to rebuild the stock absent any fishing mortality and under prevailing environmental conditions, and the mean generation time of the stock.

Directs the Secretary, within 60 days after receiving a request from the governor of an affected state or a fishing community, to determine whether there is a commercial fishery failure due to a fishery resource disaster resulting from certain causes.

Sets forth procedures for certification of a fishery management plan (or amendment) requested by a percentage of eligible fisherman to establish a limited access privilege program to harvest in fisheries under the authority of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council.

Prohibits the Secretary, acting through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), from closing a fishery that would have an affect of at least $50,000 on each of more than 25 small businesses related to the recreational, charter, or commercial fishing industries involved in the fishery being closed, unless the Secretary certifies that specified conditions have been met.
Output: To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to preserve jobs and coastal communities through transparency and accountability in fishery management, and for other purposes.
American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act Amendments of 1995 - Amends the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 to grant the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians (of the Department of the Interior) direct administrative authority over the human and financial resources supporting the provision of Indian financial trust services.  Provides for the transfer of such functions from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Office. 
Establishes a four-year term of Special Trustee, unless otherwise terminated.
Output: American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act Amendments of 1995
Indian Health Care Improvement Technical Corrections Act of 1996 - Makes technical corrections to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act concerning allopathic medicine and Indian health professions scholarships and active duty service obligations. 
Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to extend through FY 1998 the demonstration program for direct billing of Medicare, Medicaid, and other third party payors. 
Authorizes appropriations through FY 2000 for the:  (1) California Contract Health Services Demonstration Program; (2) Gallup Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center; (3) Substance Abuse Counselor Education Demonstration Program; and (4) Home and Community-Based Care Demonstration Program.
Output: Indian Health Care Improvement Technical Corrections Act of 1996
Aviation Funding Stability Act This bill requires that, beginning October 1, 2017, receipts and disbursements of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund shall not be subject to: (1) any sequestration order; (2) apportionment; (3) appropriation; and (4) any legal requirement, directive, or other provision of law of or related to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The bill authorizes funding for the Federal Aviation Administration Operations account. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shall be exempt from any order or other requirement of the OMB. The Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council shall assess the performance of the air traffic control system and the FAA's policy and strategic decisions regarding the system's operation and modernization, and make recommendations. In any fiscal year between 2018 and 2030, there is authorized to be appropriated from the trust fund such sums as necessary to bring any air traffic control facility of the FAA into acceptable condition.  The FAA shall: (1) develop and implement a revised system governing all of its acquisitions, including incorporating private-sector best practices for major capital investments in information technology and telecommunications; (2) make changes to its personnel management system to improve the productivity, cost effectiveness, and technical proficiency of that part of its workforce not represented by a labor organization; (3) jointly develop a staffing standard with the exclusive bargaining representative of air traffic controllers; and (4) develop internal policies and procedures to organize personnel assignments in a manner that facilitates open communication and collaboration.
Output: Aviation Funding Stability Act
Professional Sports Franchise Relocation Act of 1996 - Exempts from antitrust laws a professional sports league's enforcement or application of a rule authorizing the membership of the league to decide whether or not a member team may be relocated. 
Requires persons seeking to change the home territory of a member team to furnish to the media and all interested parties notice of such proposed change within 210 days before the commencement of the season in which the team is to play in such other location. 
Requires a relocation decision by a professional sports league to be based on rules, procedures, and the consideration of criteria that include:  (1) demonstrated fan loyalty and support for the team; (2) the extent the team received public financial support; and (3) whether the team has incurred net operating losses. 
Allows the decision by a professional sports league to approve or disapprove the relocation of a member team to be reviewed in a civil action brought by an interested party subject to specified limitations.  Limits the relief granted by the reviewing court to enjoining or approving enforcement of the league's decision. 
Sets forth provisions concerning debt payments by teams that relocate from publicly owned facilities that remain subject to debt for construction or improvements. 
Provides that this Act shall not effect a stadium authority's rights to seek specific enforcement of its lease or a club's rights if any to seek a judicial determination that its lease has been breached. 
Requires any community from which such professional sports league franchise relocates to receive 180 days' prior notice of any league decision to expand.  Gives the community an opportunity to compete for such an expansion franchise on grounds no less favorable that those afforded to other communities. 
Applies this Act to any league action addressing relocation of a member team on or after June 1, 1995.
Output: Professional Sports Franchise Relocation Act of 1996
Brownfields Remediation and Economic Development Act of 1996 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to certify any State program for brownfields (abandoned industrial sites in need of hazardous waste remediation before they may be returned to productive use) if the program:  (1) covers only sites that have been contaminated prior to enactment of this Act and are not listed on the National Priorities List; (2) provides for public participation prior to a landowner's release from liability upon completion of site remediation (carried out under a certified program) under State law and under abatement and response provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); (3) provides for a reopening of a cleanup proposal under specified conditions; (4) contains standards for the sites that protect public health and the environment; and (5) includes coordination among State agencies for environmental protection and economic development. 
Provides (in addition to the release of landowners from liability described above) for the release from liability under State law and under CERCLA, upon completion of remediation, of lenders and developers (except with respect to pollution directly caused by them), prospective purchasers, and local governments not involved in the management of a site. 
Allows the Administrator to waive Federal permit requirements if the State program includes a waiver of State permit requirements. 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for payments into a tax-exempt Hazardous Waste Remediation Reserve to be used exclusively to pay costs of the taxpayer to:  (1) assess the extent of a site's environmental contamination and its expected remediation cost; and (2) remediate the contamination.
Output: Brownfields Remediation and Economic Development Act of 1996
Job Creation Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2010 the increased expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; (2) exclude from gross income in 2010 100% of the gain from the sale of small business stock; and (3) exclude from gross income in 2010 all unemployment compensation.

Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to require all amounts repaid under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to reduce the program's purchase authority.

Amends Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit) to: (1) require courts to award reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, to a prevailing party in a Rule 11 proceeding (currently discretionary); and (2) eliminate the 21-day period allowed for withdrawing or correcting a claim deemed frivolous.

Requires state courts to apply Rule 11 to actions in state courts that substantially affect interstate commerce.

Limits venue for personal injury claims filed in state or federal courts to the county or district: (1) in which the plaintiff or defendant resides; (2) where the plaintiff resided at the time of the alleged injury; or (3) the district in which the defendant's principal place of business is located.

Imposes additional sanctions: (1) on attorneys who are found to violate Rule 11 three or more times; and (2) for willful and intentional destruction of documents relevant to a pending action in federal court. Establishes a rebuttable presumption of a Rule 11 violation if a plaintiff attempts to litigate a claim that has already been litigated and lost on the merits.

Prohibits a court in a Rule 11 proceeding from ordering the nondisclosure of the record of the proceeding unless the court makes a specific finding of fact that justifies such an order.
Output: To create jobs by providing targeted tax relief to individuals and small businesses, curb frivolous lawsuits, and for other purposes.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) establish and operate centers for traumatic brain injury (TBI) research, education, and clinical activities; (2) ensure the geographic distribution of such centers; and (3) designate no more than five centers.

Requires the: (1) official within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) responsible for TBI care to establish a peer review panel to assess the scientific and clinical merit of proposals submitted for the designation of such centers; and (2) Under Secretary of Health to ensure the dissemination throughout the VHA of information produced through the research, education, and clinical activities of the centers.
Output: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish traumatic brain injury centers.
Government Settlement Transparency Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the rule denying a tax deduction for fines and penalties paid to a government for the violation of any law to provide that no deduction shall be allowed for any fine or penalty paid (whether by suit, agreement, or otherwise) to, or at the direction of, a government or nongovernmental regulatory entity for a violation of law or for the investigation or inquiry by such government or entity into a potential violation of any law.

Allows exceptions to the general rule of nondeductibility for: (1) certain restitution payments or payments required to come into compliance with law; (2) court-ordered payments not involving a government or nongovernmental regulatory entity; and (3) amounts paid or incurred as taxes due.

Requires governmental agencies involved in a settlement with a taxpayer to report to the Secretary of the Treasury and the taxpayer information about such settlement, including the amount of the settlement, the amount paid as restitution or remediation of property, and the amount paid to come into compliance with law.
Output: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny a deduction for certain fines, penalties, and other amounts.
Eastern Wilderness Act of 1998 - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to:  (1) study and inventory all Federal lands of 500 acres or more which are east of the 100th meridian and which may qualify as wilderness; (2) review those areas identified as having wilderness characteristics; and (3) report to the President their recommendation as to the suitability of each area for preservation as wilderness.  Requires the President to advise the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of his recommendations with respect to such areas. Provides for the management of such areas before and after designation as wilderness, requiring such areas to be devoted to recreational, scenic, scientific, educational, conservation, and historical use and prohibiting commercial enterprise and permanent roads within such areas (with specified exceptions, including the continuation of uses established before the designation). Authorizes continued access for private landowners whose land is surrounded by wilderness area. 
Authorizes the appropriate Secretary to:  (1) acquire State or privately owned land to establish a wilderness area if the owner consents and the acquisition is specifically authorized by the Congress; and (2) accept gifts or bequests of land within wilderness areas. 
Requires, at the beginning of each congressional session, a joint report from the Secretaries to the President on the status of the wilderness system.
Output: Eastern Wilderness Act of 1998