niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Perkins County Rural Water System Act of 1999 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to the Perkins County Rural Water System, Inc. (Corporation) for the Federal share of the costs of: (1) planning and construction of the Corporation's water supply system; and (2) repairs to existing public water distribution systems to ensure conservation of resources and to make such systems functional under the new water supply system.  Prohibits the obligation of water supply system construction funds until: (1) Federal environmental compliance requirements have been met; and (2) a final engineering report and plan for a water conservation program have been prepared and submitted to the Congress for at least a 90-day period. 
Requires the mitigation of fish and wildlife losses during water supply system construction and operation on an acre-for-acre basis, based on ecological equivalency, and concurrent with project construction. 
Directs the Western Area Power Administration to make available, from power produced under the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, the capacity and energy required to meet the pumping and incidental operational requirements of the water supply system from May 1 to October 31 of each year.  Provides power use conditions. 
Provides the Federal share (75 percent) of such water supply system costs. 
Authorizes the Secretary, at the Corporation's request, to provide the Corporation assistance in overseeing matters relating to water supply system construction.  Limits the amount that may be used by the Secretary for planning and construction of the water supply system to three percent of the total project construction budget for the portion of the project to be constructed in Perkins County, South Dakota. 
Authorizes appropriations.
Output: Perkins County Rural Water System Act of 1999
Restoration of Parental Rights and State Sovereignty Act of 2015 Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to prohibit the Secretary of Education from forcing a state to satisfy any requirement imposed as a condition of receiving assistance under an ESEA grant program. Prohibits the Secretary from releasing assistance to a state under an ESEA grant program unless the state's legislature has by law expressly approved the program. Allows that approval to be accomplished by a vote to affirm a state budget that includes the use of such federal funds, but requires that budget to expressly include any requirement imposed as a condition on the state's receipt of those funds. Prohibits ESEA funds that are not allocated to a state due to the state's failure to affirmatively agree to their receipt from being reallocated among the other states. Expresses the intent of Congress that control over public education and parental rights to control their children's education is vested exclusively within the authority reserved to the states and individual Americans by the Constitution, except when states expressly approve federal terms or conditions on educational assistance or the federal government is obliged to enforce minimum federal equal protection or due process standards.
Output: Restoration of Parental Rights and State Sovereignty Act of 2015
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require the Federal Acquisition Regulation to include regulations to ensure the participation (except in specified circumstances) of at least five historically Black colleges and universities and nonprofit organizations owned and controlled by Black Americans in research and development (R&D) activities conducted for executive agencies. Outlines the requirements to be imposed on executive agencies through such regulations, including the requirement that each such agency reserve a specified percentage of its FY 1995 through 1998 appropriations for R&D activities to be conducted by the Black colleges it must designate under this Act as federally funded R&D centers.  Increases such set-aside on a graduated basis for such fiscal years. 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress annually on the activities of executive agencies in carrying out this Act.
Output: A bill to amend the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to provide for expanded participation of historically Black colleges and universities and nonprofit organizations owned and controlled by Black Americans in federally funded research and development activities.
American Bald Eagle Recovery and National Emblem Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in celebration of the recovery of the bald eagle, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the enactment of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the placement of the bald eagle on the endangered species list under such Act, to mint and issue not more than: (1) 100,000 $5 gold coins; (2) 500,000 $1 silver coins; and (3) 750,000 half dollar coins.

Directs that the design of the coins be emblematic of the bald eagle and its history, natural biology, and national symbolism.

Requires that sales of the coins include a surcharge of $35 per coin for the $5 coin, $10 for the $1 coin, and $3 for the half dollar coin, which shall be promptly paid by the Secretary to the American Eagle Foundation of Tennessee to: (1) establish an interest-bearing endowment called the American Eagle Fund as a permanent source of support for the care, monitoring, maintenance, and recovery of the bald eagle and its habitat in the United States; (2) make annual grants to Federal, State, and private eagle restoration, protection, and enhancement projects; (3) administer the Fund in an annual amount not to exceed the lesser of ten percent of the annual income of the Fund or $250,000; and (4) provide financial support for capital projects and for continuation and expansion of the Foundation's efforts to educate the American people about the bald eagle.
Output: A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins celebrating the recovery and restoration of the American bald eagle, the national symbol of the United States, to America's lands, waterways, and skies and the great importance of the designation of the American bald eagle as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.
Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for: (1) destroying, altering, or falsifying records in Federal investigations or in bankruptcy; (2) failure of an accountant who conducts an audit of an issuer of securities to maintain all documents sent, received, or created in connection with the audit for a five year period; and (3) executing a scheme to defraud in connection with a registered security, or to obtain by false pretenses money or property in connection with its purchase or sale.Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to review the Federal sentencing guidelines for obstruction of justice, and for fraud when the number of victims adversely involved is significantly greater than 50 or when it endangers the solvency or financial security of multiple victims.Amends: (1) Federal bankruptcy law to make certain debts incurred in violation of Federal or State securities laws, or common law fraud in connection with the purchase or sale of any security, non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, and to increase the amount of employees' wages protected under chapter 11 proceedings; and (2) the Federal judicial code to authorize a private right of action that involves a securities fraud-related claim to be brought by the earlier of five years after the date of the alleged violation or three years after its discovery.Authorizes a civil action to protect whistle-blowing employees against retaliation in fraud cases involving publicly traded companies.Amends the judicial code to direct the Attorney General to establish within the Department of Justice a Retirement Security Fraud Bureau.
Output: To provide for criminal prosecution of persons who alter or destroy evidence in certain Federal investigations or defraud investors of publicly traded securities, to disallow debts incurred in violation of securities fraud laws from being discharged in bankruptcy, to protect whistleblowers against retaliation by their employers, and for other purposes.
Justice for Former American Hostages in Iran Act of 2015 Establishes in the Treasury the American Hostages in Iran Compensation Fund to: (1) make payments to the Americans held hostage in Iran, and to their families, who are identified as members of the proposed class in case number 1:00-CV-03110 (ESG) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; and (2) satisfy their claims against Iran relating to the taking of hostages and treatment of personnel of the U.S. embassy in Tehran between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981.  Imposes a surcharge, to be deposited into the Fund, of 30% on the amount of: (1) any fine or penalty imposed for a violation (committed on or after enactment of this Act) of a law or regulation penalizing any economic activity relating to Iran that is administered by the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, Commerce, or Energy; or (2) the monetary amount of a settlement entered into by a person regarding a suspected violation of such a law or regulation.   Requires Fund payments to members of the proposed class in the following order of priority:   $10,000 for each day of captivity first to each living former hostage and then to the estate of each deceased former hostage, and $5,000 to each spouse and child of a former hostage for each day of captivity of the former hostage.   Prohibits a payment recipient from maintaining an action against Iran in any federal or state court for any claims relating to the hostage events. Waives and forever releases all existing claims against Iran for those events upon payment from the Fund to all designated recipients. Requires the State Department to submit recommendations to Congress if Fund amounts will be insufficient to pay all recipients within 444 days after enactment of this Act.
Output: Justice for Former American Hostages in Iran Act of 2015
Indian Dams Safety Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to:  (1) establish a dam safety maintenance program within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in order to maintain each dam on Indian lands in a satisfactory condition; (2) perform necessary repair and rehabilitation work to bring any unsatisfactory dam to satisfactory condition and to then place the dam under the program's maintenance; and (3) develop a maintenance action plan, with priority given to dams with high or significant risk ratings. 
Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive list of dams on Indian lands describing conditions of:  (1) dam safety; (2) risk hazard; and (3) maintenance deficiencies. 
Authorizes the Secretary to:  (1) obtain technical assistance from other agencies and departments; and (2) contract with appropriate Indian tribes to carry out the program.  States that the dam safety program (of 1980) and the program established by this Act shall be under BIA direction. 
Authorizes appropriations.
Output: Indian Dams Safety Act of 1994
Amends Federal law with respect to congressional review of agency rulemaking to conform with this Act.
Output: To establish the permanent Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules to review rules of Federal agencies and to amend chapter 8 of title 5 of the United States Code.
Moving Housing Forward Act of 2016 This bill directs the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to require the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to establish a pilot program that shares with the private sector the credit risk on a pool of single-family residential mortgage loans that back securities on which Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guarantee the timely payment of principal and interest. The bill expresses the sense of Congress that credit risk transfer transactions should be encouraged that: (1) reduce taxpayer exposure to credit risk assumed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and (2) do not expose Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to excessive counterparty risk that persons contractually obligated to them will fail to perform their obligations. After the pilot program is executed for three years, the FHFA must examine the economics of developing it into a continuous risk sharing program.
Output: Moving Housing Forward Act of 2016
Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program Act of 2017 This bill designates the existing Department of Defense (DOD) information assurance scholarship and grant program as the Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program to provide financial assistance (with consideration given to whether the recipient is, or the pursuit of the degree is at, a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education designated by the National Security Agency) to: (1) persons pursuing information assurance degrees or certifications at institutions of higher education in exchange for an agreement to serve on active duty in the armed forces or as a DOD employee for a designated period; and (2) institutions of higher education to support development of faculty, curriculum, laboratories, and research for information assurance disciplines. Not less than 5% of the amounts available for scholarship financial assistance must be available for the pursuit of associate degrees.  DOD must submit a plan for reinvigorating the program. 
Output: Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program Act of 2017
Antimicrobial Pesticide Registration Reform Act of 1995 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to identify and evaluate changes to the process for registration of antimicrobial pesticides that will reduce current time periods for review. 
Prohibits a registrant of an antimicrobial pesticide from changing the label or labeling statements required under FIFRA or by regulation without the approval of the Administrator, but allows labeling or labeling alteration that is truthful and not misleading if it is unrelated to such requirements. 
Exempts from applicability of FIFRA storage, disposal, transportation, and recall requirements household and similarly formulated industrial and institutional disinfectant and sanitizer products not otherwise subject to regulation under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. 
Directs the Administrator to:  (1) share data and information and coordinate and synchronize data requests whenever data in support of a pesticide registration is requested by one or more State or Federal agencies; and (2) develop and implement procedures for such coordination to reduce burdens and avoid unnecessary repetition and redundancy.
Output: Antimicrobial Pesticide Registration Reform Act of 1995
Coding Opportunities and Development for Equitable Students Act or the High School CODES Act This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to direct the Department of Education (ED) to carry out a coding demonstration program. Under the program, ED shall award grants to local educational agencies for the establishment or expansion of programs&nbsp;that allow high-school students to take a coding class in place of a mathematics, science, or foreign language class as graduation requirement.  
Output: Coding Opportunities and Development for Equitable Students Act
Palestinian Compliance Act of 2006 - Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 to withhold financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until presidential certification that the PA has: (1) denounced terrorism and expressed a commitment to combating terrorism; (2) committed to disarming terrorists and disarming and dismantling terrorist networks, groups, and entities; (3) committed to eliminating the incitement of terrorism and the commemoration of terrorists in Palestinian society; (4) pledged to uphold the human rights, civil liberties, and religious liberties of the Palestinian people; (5) recognized Israel's right to exist and taken appropriate steps to amend "The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement" (August 18, 1988) to delete statements that are hostile to Israel and that support the use of violence; (6) renounced the use of violence as a means to resolve disputes between entities; and (7) committed to prosecuting those individuals, entities, and organizations that have committed acts of terrorism.
Output: A bill to withhold United States assistance from the Palestinian Authority until certain conditions have been satisfied.
Ocean Habitat Protection Act - Places size limits on groundgear used on bottom trawls. Treats as unlawful the use of rollers, bobbins, tires, rockhoppers, or any other devices attached to a trawl's foot rope that are more than 8 inches in diameter for fishing subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Output: To protect diverse and structurally complex areas of the seabed in the United States exclusive economic zone by establishing a maximum diameter size limit on rockhopper, roller, and all other groundgear used on bottom trawls.
Authorizes appropriations to establish an office in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate and prosecute violations of tax laws by individuals under investigation for criminal commercial sex activity.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase criminal monetary and other penalties for attempts to evade or defeat tax, willful failure to file a tax return, supply information, or pay tax, aggravated failure to file tax returns, fraud and false statements, and underpayment or overpayment of tax due to fraud.
Output: To authorize appropriations for the purpose of establishing an office within the Internal Revenue Service to focus on violations of the internal revenue laws by persons who are under investigation for conduct relating to commercial sex acts, and to increase the criminal monetary penalty limitations for the underpayment or overpayment of tax due to fraud.
Oversight of Sensitive Military Operations Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to notify the congressional defense and appropriations committees of any sensitive military operation (a lethal or capture operation conducted by U.S. Armed Forces outside the United States) promptly following such operation. Requires: (1) the Secretary to submit to such committees procedures for complying with such requirement consistent with U.S. national security and the protection of operational integrity, and (2) such committees to ensure that committee procedures designed to protect the unauthorized disclosure of U.S. national security information are sufficient to protect the information submitted. Makes the notification requirement inapplicable to a sensitive military operation executed within Afghanistan pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force. Requires the Secretary to submit to such committees an explanation of the legal and policy considerations and approval processes used in determining whether an individual or group could become the target of a sensitive military operation. Directs the Secretary to provide such committees quarterly briefings on DOD counterterrorism operations and related activities involving special operations forces.
Output: Oversight of Sensitive Military Operations Act
Authorizes the appointment of hearing aid specialists in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Requires an eligible person to: (1) hold an associate's degree in hearing instrument sciences or its equivalent from a college or university approved by the VA Secretary or have successfully completed an approved hearing aid specialist apprenticeship program, and (2) be licensed as a hearing aid specialist or its equivalent in a state. Requires the Secretary to: (1) submit an annual report on timely access to hearing health services and on contracting policies with respect to providing hearing health services in non-VA facilities, and (2) update and reissue the VHA handbook entitled &quot;VHA Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Services&quot; to reflect the requirements of this Act.   
Output: To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the qualifications of hearing aid specialists of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies Act - Establishes the Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies to: (1) evaluate executive agencies and their programs; and (2) submit to Congress a plan recommending agencies and programs that should be realigned or eliminated and proposing implementing legislation.

 Requires the Commission to recommend: (1) realignment where a function performed by two or more agencies or programs can be consolidated; (2) realignment or elimination of any agency or program that has wasted federal funds; and (3) elimination of any agency or program that has completed its purpose, become irrelevant, or failed to meet objectives.
Output: To establish a commission to conduct a comprehensive review of Federal agencies and programs and to recommend the elimination or realignment of duplicative, wasteful, or outdated functions, and for other purposes.
21st Century Skills Incentive Fund Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to states to establish statewide 21st Century Skills initiatives.

Conditions grant eligibility on a state's: (1) developing a comprehensive plan for such initiative; (2) showing a commitment to advancing such skills within standards and assessments, curriculum, professional development, and the learning environment; (3) achieving broad support for the initiative among state education, business, and civic leaders; and (4) being approved as a 21st Century Partner state by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Directs the Secretary to establish a 21st Century Skills Incentive Fund from which grants shall be awarded.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require that the percentage limitation on corporate charitable contributions be applied separately to cash contributions to state 21st Century Skills initiatives and all other corporate charitable contributions.
Output: A bill to create a new incentive fund that will encourage States to adopt the 21st Century Skills Framework.
Rural Jobs Tax Credit Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow eligible employers, including tax-exempt employers, a refundable tax credit for increases in wages paid during 2010 and 2011.

Defines an "eligible employer" as any employer that conducts an active trade or business in an area other than: (1) a city or town of more than 50,000 inhabitants; or (2) any urbanized area contiguous and adjacent to such a city or town.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to work with state employment agencies to inform businesses of the availability of the tax credit allowed by this Act.
Output: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a refundable credit for increasing employment.
United States Capitol Police Authorization Act of 2001 - Authorizes appropriations for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) for salaries and expenses. Establishes the maximum number of full-time equivalent positions and adjusts rates of pay to be comparable to those of the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division and the U.S. Park Police, as specified, but bars any rate decrease.Makes proceeds from property disposal or insurance compensation a credit to the appropriation.Sets forth procedures governing the administration of a monetary award program for incentive, performance, and specialty skills pay.Authorizes the Capitol Police Board to lease facilities and property.Places certain leased property under the control of the Chief of the USCP, permitting additional uses as specified.Requires USCP firearms to be disposed of in accordance with Capitol Police Board regulations.Authorizes appropriations from the Emergency Response Fund to the USCP for emergency response.Includes the buildings and grounds of the U.S. Botanic Garden within the purview of the USCP.
Output: To authorize appropriations for salaries and expenses of the United States Capitol Police, and for other purposes.
Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act of 2002 - Amends Federal civil service law to include as Federal law enforcement officers eligible under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System revenue officers in the Internal Revenue Service, customs inspectors and canine enforcement officers in the U.S. Customs Service, and inspectors in the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Output: A bill to amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to include inspectors of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, inspectors and canine enforcement officers of the United States Customs Service, and revenue officers of the Internal Revenue Service as law enforcement officers.
Veterans' Survivors Education Enhancement Act of 2007 - Revises provisions concerning educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to terminate the 45-month limitation on: (1) the use of such assistance for eligible veterans' survivors and dependents; and (2) the use of such assistance for special restorative training. Makes survivors and dependents eligible for educational assistance until their 30th (currently 26th) birthday.

Makes the aggregate amount of educational assistance $80,000. (Currently, there are monthly limits for full-time, three quarter-time, or half-time educational pursuit.) Includes within authorized educational pursuits in such amounts: (1) a program of apprenticeship or other on-job training; and (2) a correspondence course.

Makes survivors and dependents eligible for tutorial assistance.
Output: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and enhance educational assistance for survivors and dependents of veterans.
Virginia Jobs and Energy Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct an oil and gas lease sale off the coast of Virginia within one year, and conduct at least two lease sales in the area during the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. During each of Interior's five-year leasing programs, two lease sales must be conducted off the coast of Virginia. The bill prohibits oil or natural gas exploration, development, or production off the Virginia coast that would conflict with a military operation.  The bill allocates 37.5% of new leasing revenues received each fiscal year by the federal government for payment to states affected with respect to the leases that generate these revenues.Additionally, the bill sets forth the minimum and maximum revenues that an affected state may receive. Interior must require any applicant seeking to conduct an offshore meteorological site testing and monitoring project to obtain a permit and right-of-way.(An offshore meteorological site testing and monitoring project is carried out on or in the waters of the outer Continental Shelf to test or monitor weather using towers, buoys, or other temporary ocean infrastructure).These projects shall be exempt from environmental impact statement requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.   
Output: Virginia Jobs and Energy Act
Defines eligibility criteria, including membership in a family with an income level below the threshold at which eligibility for the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit is disallowed under the Internal Revenue Code.
Authorizes the Secretary to delegate administration of the program to another public or private entity if it would be more efficient to do so.
Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the University of the District of Columbia to enable it to carry out activities authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants of up to $2,000 per academic year on behalf of eligible students to help defray tuition costs for attendance at private, nonprofit postsecondary education institutions in the District or an adjacent county. Prescribes eligibility criteria identical to the other eligibility criteria of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate administration of the program to another public or private entity if it would be more efficient to do so. Authorizes appropriations.
Output: Expanded Options in Higher Education for District of Columbia Students Act of 1999
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize a group of agricultural commodity producers to petition the Secretary of Agriculture for a certification of eligibility to apply for trade adjustment assistance. Requires the Secretary to determine whether the petitioning group meets certain requirements and, if so, to issue such a certification.Requires the International Trade Commission to notify the Secretary immediately whenever it begins an investigation into whether an agricultural commodity is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to be a substantial cause or threat of serious injury to a domestic industry producing an agricultural commodity like or directly competitive with the imported agricultural commodity.Directs the Secretary to provide agricultural commodity producers with information about trade adjustment assistance petition and application procedures, benefit allowances, training, and other employment services.Sets forth certain eligibility requirements for the payment of trade adjustment assistance to adversely affected agricultural commodity producers. Limits to $10,000 the maximum annual amount of cash benefits a producer may receive.Provides for the repayment and recovery of overpayments of trade adjustment assistance made to such producers due to fraud. Sets forth penalties for such fraud.
Output: A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide trade adjustment assistance to farmers.
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to make grants to local governments and Indian tribes to provide for school resource and safety officers at schools. Defines a &quot;school resource and safety officer&quot; as a career law enforcement officer who is assigned by the employing police department to protect schools and who works in and around schools for not less than 75% of the time the officer is on duty.  Requires the Director to: (1) establish guidelines for programs that train school resource and safety officers, and (2) ensure an equitable geographic distribution of grants among regions of the United States and among urban, suburban, and rural areas. Limits grants to: (1) $200,000 for each officer proposed to be hired or each training program proposed to be funded, subject to a waiver; and (2) three fiscal years. Authorizes the Director to make available additional funds if the funds were used in the manner required and the recipient demonstrates significant financial need. 
Output: A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety.
Access to Women's Health Care Act of 1997 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish standards requiring that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide adequate access to services provided by obstetrician-gynecologists.
Output: Access to Women's Health Care Act of 1997
Advancing Innovative Manufacturing Act of 2012 - Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to carry out a program to develop and support industry-led consortia that will identify, prioritize, and address long-term, precompetitive industrial research needs in the area of advanced manufacturing, including through the use of technology roadmaps and transfer of technology platforms and infrastructure.

Requires the Director to carry out a pilot program (through the award of competitive, merit-reviewed grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to small- or medium-sized manufacturers through a uniform process) to enhance the innovative capabilities and competitiveness of such manufacturers through support for research and development that will promote the field of advanced manufacturing and lead to the commercialization of new products, processes, or technologies.

Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish an innovation voucher pilot program to accelerate innovative activities and enhance the competitiveness of small- and medium-sized manufacturers, which shall: (1) foster collaborations between such manufacturers and research institutions, and (2) enable the manufacturers to access technical expertise and capabilities that will lead to the development of innovative products or manufacturing processes.

Amends the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 to revise the program of grants for education and training in advanced manufacturing so that such grants are provided to community colleges for the development and implementation of innovative education reforms to ensure an adequate and well-trained advanced manufacturing workforce. Lists activities that may be supported by such grants, including for: (1) the development of teaching materials and methods, (2) faculty professional development, (3) centers to provide models and leadership, and (4) activities to enhance student recruitment and retention.
Output: To accelerate research, development, and innovation in advanced manufacturing, to improve the competitiveness of American manufacturers, and for other purposes.
Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to set forth special rules for electioneering communications, especially targeted communications, which national banks, corporations, and labor organizations are prohibited from paying for.

Defines "targeted communications" as electioneering communications distributed from a television or radio broadcast station or provider of cable or satellite television service and, in the case of a communication which refers to a candidate for an office other than President or Vice President, is targeted to the relevant electorate.

Prohibits independent expenditures by national banks, corporations, and labor organizations.

Applies certain limitations on contributions made by any person to a political committee to any contribution to a political committee which accepts donations or contributions that do not comply with contribution or source prohibitions (or made to any account of a political committee established to accept such noncompliant donations or contributions).
Output: To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reassert the authority of Congress to restrict spending by corporations and labor organizations on campaigns for elections for Federal office, and for other purposes.
Medicare Preventive Services Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) extend from six months to one year the eligibility period for the "Welcome to Medicare" physical examination; and (2) cover and waive cost-sharing for specified additional preventive screening services.
Output: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend for 6 months the eligibility period for the "Welcome to Medicare" physical examination and to provide for the coverage and waiver of cost-sharing for preventive services under the Medicare program.
Expanding Research for Women in Trauma Act of 2002 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) increase and expand specified violence prevention research initiatives that focus upon violence against women and special populations including adolescents and ethnic minorities; and (2) award grants for such programs for a maximum five-year period.
Output: A bill to expand research for women in trauma.
State Hunger Assistance in Response to Emergency Act of 2001 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide funding for food stamp informational activities by States with the greatest rate of hunger.
Output: A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to improve food stamp informational activities in those States with the greatest rate of hunger.
Federal Government Decentralization Commission Act This bill establishes in the General Services Administration the Federal Government Decentralization Commission to study and submit a plan for the relocation of executive agencies or divisions of executive agencies outside the Washington metropolitan area. The plan shall include:  an identification of such new locations, prioritized by relocation to low-income communities or to areas with expertise in the mission and goal of the agency or division; a consideration of national security implications; an economic and workforce development study on how the relocation would impact the new location; and  a list of potential site acquisitions and a partial prospectus for such agencies or divisions, including a brief description of the building to be constructed, altered, or leased, the location of the building, and an estimate of the maximum cost of the acquisition and the relocation.   
Output: Federal Government Decentralization Commission Act
Fairness in Flood Insurance Act of 2015 This bill amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to declare that, in any appeal to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), or any judicial review of a final administrative determination, regarding the designation of flood elevation determinations or the identification of special flood hazard areas, FEMA shall have the burden of proving, by clear and convincing evidence, that the elevations proposed or the designation of an identified special flood hazard area is scientifically and technically correct. FEMA shall:  reimburse the reasonable legal and related expenses of any individual or community that succeeds on such an appeal; and  revise and update any floodplain areas and flood-risk zones upon the request from any owner or lessee of real property located in a floodplain area or flood-risk zone (currently, only upon the request of FEMA or of a state or local government), if sufficient technical data justifying the request is submitted.  A state or local government, or the owner or lessee of real property, who has formally requested FEMA to update a flood map that FEMA has denied may at any time appeal the denial according to a specified procedure. The basis for appeal shall be possession of knowledge or information that:  the base flood elevation level or designation of any aspect of a flood map is scientifically or technically inaccurate; or specified factors exist, including natural or manmade topographical features, that mitigate the risk of flooding.  These flood mitigation factors shall also be considered in the establishment and updating of areas with special flood hazards. When estimating risk premium rates for flood insurance, and prescribing chargeable premium rates, FEMA shall take into consideration the differences between properties located in coastal areas and properties located inland. FEMA shall consult with the Technical Mapping Advisory Council about methods of making or actions to make the Council's flood map processes more efficient and achieve other specified goals. The Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 is amended to require FEMA to ensure that the Flood Insurance Advocate has sufficient staff to carry out all of the Advocate's duties and responsibilities, which shall include providing direction as necessary, including by direct conversations with insurance agents. The Government Accountability Office shall study:   the scientific and technical adequacy of the flood maps FEMA proposes and establishes, and  the effects on the National Flood Insurance Program and otherwise of changing the standard for designating special flood hazard areas from having a 1% or greater to having a 10% or greater chance of experiencing flooding in any given year. 
Output: Fairness in Flood Insurance Act of 2015
Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for additional amounts of student loan forgiveness for certain eligible teachers of: (1) mathematics or science in secondary schools; and (2) special education or reading in elementary and secondary schools. Requires such teachers to be highly qualified and to agree to teach for five consecutive years in schools with high enrollments of students from low-income families.

(Sec. 2) Increases to $17,500 the maximum amount of loan forgiveness for such teachers under the Federal Family Education Loan and the Federal Direct Student Loan programs (with the current maximum of $5,000 continuing to apply to teachers of other subjects). Directs the Secretary of Education to pay certain portions of such loan forgiveness at specified stages of their service in the case of those eligible for the increased amount. Requires those qualifying for an increased repayment to teach at a school eligible for assistance under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA title I school) with at least a 40 percent enrollment of students from low-income families (with the current repayment maximum continuing to apply in the case of those who teach at ESEA title I schools with at least a 30 percent enrollment of such students). (Sec. 3) Requires all teachers eligible for student loan forgiveness to be highly qualified, in keeping with requirements under ESEA. Exempts from this requirement teachers who have already begun their teaching service obligation under the current loan forgiveness program. States that such exemption shall not apply for purposes of obtaining increased loan amounts. (Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary to notify local educational agencies eligible to participate in the ESEA's Small Rural Achievement Program of the increased amounts of student loan forgiveness made available to certain teachers by this Act, and to encourage such agencies to notify their teachers of such benefits.
Output: To increase the amount of student loans that may be forgiven for teachers in mathematics, science, and special education.
Helium Privatization Act of 1995 - Amends the Helium Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to:  (1) enter into agreements with private parties for the recovery and disposal of helium on Federal lands; (2) grant leasehold rights to such helium; (3) store and transport crude helium; and (4) maintain and operate existing crude helium storage at the Bureau of Mines Cliffside Field. 
Directs the Secretary to:  (1) cease producing, refining, and marketing refined helium; and (2) dispose of all facilities, equipment, and Federal property interests relating to refined helium activities. 
Requires the Secretary to impose fees for helium storage, withdrawal, or transportation services. 
Prescribes guidelines for:  (1) the purchase of helium by Federal agencies from certain private persons; and (2) the sale of crude helium by the Secretary.  Prohibits the Secretary from making crude helium sales in amounts that will disrupt the crude helium market price.  Mandates that proceeds from helium sales be paid to the Treasury. 
Instructs the Secretary to eliminate helium stockpiles by a prescribed deadline.  Repeals the Secretary's authority to borrow under the Helium Act. 
Directs the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior to prepare certain annual financial statements for the Helium Operations of the Bureau of Mines.
Output: Helium Privatization Act of 1995
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, to make certain aliens determined to be delinquent in child support payments inadmissable, deportable, and ineligible for naturalization. 
Authorizes immigration officers to serve child support-related legal process on certain arriving aliens. 
Amends the Social Security Act to provide for Immigration and Naturalization Service access to certain delinquent child support information.
Output: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make certain aliens determined to be delinquent in the payment of child support inadmissible, deportable, and ineligible for naturalization, to authorize immigration officers to serve process in child support cases on aliens entering the United States, and for other purposes.
Expedited Rescissions Act of 2005 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose, at any time and in any manner provided in this Act, the rescission of any budget authority in an appropriation Act.

Prohibits funds made available for obligation under this procedure from being proposed for rescission again.

Sets forth requirements for: (1) the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding a proposed rescission; and (2) expedited consideration of such proposal.
Output: To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions of budget authority.
Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants, with regard to women (and their partners) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), for preventive health services, referrals, follow-ups, outreach, and training on the effective provision of such services.  Authorizes appropriations. 
Authorizes grants to provide HIV prevention education to women. Sets forth requirements regarding the composition of Planning Councils. Authorizes appropriations. 
Authorizes grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to provide:  (1) substance abuse treatment to women; (2) counseling to women who engage in substance abuse on the prevention of infection with, and the transmission of, the etiologic agent for AIDS; and (3) such counseling to women who are the partners of individuals who abuse substances.  Authorizes appropriations. 
Authorizes appropriations for grants under existing provisions to provide early intervention services for women and related technical assistance.
Output: Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act