zli12321/Bills huggingface dataset:
Sound Dollar Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act (FRA) to direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to: (1) pursue the goal of long-term price stability, and (2) establish metrics to evaluate whether long-term price stability is being achieved.

Prescribes procedures for the establishment and evaluation of such metrics.

Directs the Board and the FOMC to: (1) make such information available to the public on a website, and (2) report to Congress each time such metrics are set or revised.

Directs the Board to include in its semiannual report to Congress: (1) the results of the evaluation process, (2) whether the goal of long-term price stability is being met, (3) the main monetary policy instruments and strategy used by the Board and the FOMC to achieve long-term price stability, and (4) an analysis of how the policies of the Board and the FOMC are affecting the foreign exchange rate value of the U.S. dollar.

Directs the Board to clearly articulate its lender-of-last-resort policy.

Revamps FOMC membership to consist of one representative from each of the Federal Reserve banks (in addition to members of the Board).

Directs the FOMC to release meeting transcripts to the public within three years after each meeting.

Redesignates the Department of the Treasury stabilization fund as the Special Drawing Rights Fund. Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to liquidate all property in the Fund (other than Special Drawing Rights) and to use all such amounts to reduce the public debt.

Limits the availability of the Fund solely to stabilize exchange rates and arrangements. Repeals the authority of the Secretary to deal in U.S. instruments of credit and securities. Permits only Special Drawing Rights to be deposited into the Fund. Requires funds that would otherwise have been deposited into the Fund to be paid, instead, to the Secretary to reduce the public debt.

Amends the FRA to authorize the FOMC, in unusual and exigent circumstances, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members, to grant any Federal Reserve bank emergency authority to buy and sell U.S. debt obligations and revenue bonds in anticipation of the collection of taxes or the receipt of assured revenues by any state or local governmental entity, as well as obligations of, or guaranteed by, a foreign government or agency.

Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to repeal: (1) funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and (2) the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Fund.

Date: 2013-03-14
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Economics and public finance
Unemployment Benefits Extension Act of 2013 or Unemployed Jobhunters Protection and Assistance Act of 2013 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to extend emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) payments for eligible individuals to weeks of employment ending on or before January 1, 2015.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the House of Representatives and the Senate should reconvene on or before December 18, 2013, to take appropriate action to enact this legislation.

Date: 2013-12-16
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Labor and employment
Labor Statistics Improvement Act - Establishes an independent Commission to Improve Labor Statistics.

Directs the Commission to: (1) examine and make an assessment of the process by which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates statistical data relating to unemployment rates, including the methods used for determining that an individual is considered to be looking for work; (2) formulate recommendations for any improvement to such process and methods, including proposals for any alternative measures of labor force participation, taking into account evidence that the official unemployment rate doesn't always accurately reflect labor market strength; and (3) develop a new method for determining and reporting underemployment that takes into consideration workers who are not in jobs that match their skill set or education and who are earning less than other workers in similar occupations or with similar skill sets and education.

Directs the Commission to transmit a report to the President and Congress within 180 days after all of its original members have been appointed. Terminates the Commission 60 days after it submits such report.

Date: 2014-03-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Labor and employment
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms of five years.

Requires the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to testify annually to certain congressional committees.

Date: 2014-11-18
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015 

 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Government Accountability Office to: (1) complete, within 12 months of enactment, the required audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) and of the Federal Reserve Banks; and (2) submit to Congress, within 90 days of audit completion, a detailed report of audit findings and conclusions.

The bill repeals certain limitations placed upon audits of the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve banks concerning: (1) international financial transactions, (2) deliberations or actions on monetary policy matters, (3) transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee, or (4) a part of a discussion or communication among members of the Federal Reserve Board and officers and employees of the Federal Reserve System related to these matters.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act of 2015

 Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Full Employment National Trust Fund with two separate accounts for: (1) Employment Opportunity Grants to states, Indian tribes, local governments, publicly-funded elementary and secondary educational institutions, educational institutions in the Federal Work-Study Program, and tax-exempt non-profit organizations for job-creating activities in communities whose economy is not at a level of full employment; and (2) Workforce Investment programs.

Requires the Secretary, through studies conducted by the Department of Labor or through independent studies, to:

 review the effectiveness of job training and job creation programs under this Act; disseminate information concerning best practices for achieving the Act's goals; and acquire a better understanding of the true cost of the programs. Establishes arbitration procedures for resolution of disputes for grant recipients. Requires the Secretary to post a whistleblower hotline on the Department's website for the public to report noncompliance with the Act's requirements.

Directs the Secretary to convene a national employment conference to meet annually to discuss the role of this Act in addressing all aspects of the problems of unemployment, the sharing of best practices in addressing those problems, and the discussion of problems in the administration of this Act.

Amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to revise member composition requirements for state and local workforce development boards to include at least 25% of the chief executive officers of minority-serving, community-based organizations.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on the transfer of ownership in certain covered securities transactions, payable by trading facilities or brokers that deal in such transactions. Prescribes a penalty for persons who fail to include such transactions on any tax return or statement.

Directs the Secretary to suspend new hiring of unemployed persons and to freeze the hourly wages paid for jobs funded under this Act whenever it is determined that:

 the unemployment rate is less than 4%, and the consumer price index (inflation) is greater than 3%.

Date: 2015-02-13
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Labor and employment
Focusing the Fed on the Currency of the United States Act of 2015 or the FFOCUS Act of 2015

 Amends the Federal Reserve Act to repeal the joint mandate on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee to make maximum employment one of the goals of their duty to maintain long run growth of the monetary and credit aggregates commensurate with the U.S. economy's long run potential to increase production.

Date: 2015-02-27
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Economics and public finance
No Taxpayer Bailouts for Unsustainable State and Local Pensions Act 

This bill prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from providing loans, grants, or other forms of financial assistance to state and local government pension plan funds.

Date: 2015-03-19
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Labor and employment
Real Unemployment Calculation Act 

 Treats the measure of unemployment issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (known as U5) as the official and primary measure of unemployment in the United States.

Date: 2015-04-16
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Labor and employment
Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2015

 Directs each federal agency that provides contracts, grants, loans, or loan guarantees to businesses to require, as a condition of such assistance, that such businesses provide annually information on:

 the number of employees employed in the United States and its territories and possessions and the number employed outside the United States, as well as wage information on U.S. employees; and the percentage of the workforce that has been laid off or forced to resign during the preceding year. Prohibits, until the situation is corrected, subsequent federal assistance to businesses that lay off a greater percentage of workers in the United States and its territories and possessions than in other countries.

Date: 2015-06-04
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Labor Statistics Improvement Act 

 Establishes an independent Commission to Improve Labor Statistics.

Directs the Commission to:

 examine and assess the process by which the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates statistical data relating to unemployment rates, including the methods used for determining that an individual is considered to be looking for work; recommend any improvement to the process and methods, including proposals for any alternative measures of labor force participation, taking into account evidence that the official unemployment rate doesn't always accurately reflect labor market strength; and develop a new method for determining and reporting underemployment that takes into consideration workers who are not in jobs that match their skill sets or education and who are earning less than other workers in similar occupations or with similar skill sets and education.

Date: 2015-10-01
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Labor and employment
Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015 

This bill directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to: (1) commence and complete an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and of the Federal Reserve Banks within 12 months of enactment of this Act, and (2) report findings and conclusions to Congress within 90 days of completing the audit.

The bill also repeals certain limitations upon such an audit.

GAO shall audit and report on the review of loan files of homeowners in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010, required as part of the enforcement actions taken by the Board against supervised financial institutions.

Audit contents shall include: (1) the guidance given by the Board to independent consultants retained by the supervised financial institutions regarding procedures to be followed in conducting the file reviews; (2) the factors considered by independent consultants when evaluating loan files and the results obtained pursuant to those reviews; and (3) the determinations made by such consultants regarding the nature and extent of financial injury sustained by each homeowner, as well as the level and type of remediation offered.

Date: 2015-01-27
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms of five years.

Requires the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to testify annually to certain congressional committees.

Date: 2015-02-23
Topic: Macroeconomics (Unemployment Rate)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Prohibits the sale or donation of Department of Defense designated as Identification Friend or Foe equipment or accessories, with specified exceptions. Subjects to civil or criminal penalties, or both, persons who manufacture, sell, or possess such items without authorization.

Date: 2007-10-16
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
United States Airlift Requirements Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to study alternatives for the asset size and mix for the Air Force intertheater airlift force, focusing on current and planned capabilities and costs of the C-5 and C-17 fleets. Requires that the study be conducted through a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in concert with the United States Transportation Command.

Date: 2007-10-18
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Prohibits the sale or donation of Department of Defense designated as Identification Friend or Foe equipment or accessories, with specified exceptions. Subjects to civil or criminal penalties, or both, persons who manufacture, sell, or possess such items without authorization.

Date: 2007-11-06
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
National Security Culture and Language Training Act - Establishes an: (1) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Irregular Warfare, Cultural Training, and Social Sciences Initiatives; and (2) Office of Irregular Warfare, Cultural Training, and Social Sciences Initiatives. Requires the Office to, among other things: (1) devise and implement a training doctrine that includes the development of cultural, sociological, and psychological knowledge and skills for members of the Armed Forces; and (2) use existing military cultural training programs to expand training efforts for all military personnel. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to pay: (1) a skill proficiency bonus to a regular or reserve member in training to acquire proficiency in a foreign language or expertise in foreign cultural studies or a related skill designated as critical by the Secretary concerned; and (2) incentive pay to a person enrolled in an officer training program to also participate in an education or training program to acquire such proficiency. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a pilot program to provide a skill proficiency bonus to a member of the reserves receiving compensation for inactive-duty training while participating in an education or training program to acquire such proficiency.

Date: 2008-05-13
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Authorizes the President to authorize the design and construction of a petroleum refinery for each of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps that will be located on a military installation and reserved for the exclusive purpose of manufacturing petroleum products designated for consumption by units and elements of that branch of the Armed Forces.Directs the President to solicit proposals for the design and construction of a refinery under this Act. Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal the reduced lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions requirement relating to federal agency procurement and acquisition of alternative fuels.

Date: 2008-05-22
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Defense Production Act Extension and Reauthorization of 2008 - Extends and reauthorizes the Defense Production Act of 1950 through FY2009.

Date: 2008-09-15
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Nuclear Policy and Posture Review Act of 2007 - Directs the President to conduct a nuclear policy review to consider a range of options on the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. security policy. Requires the Secretary of Defense to conduct a comprehensive review of the U.S. nuclear posture to clarify U.S. nuclear deterrence policy and strategy. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President's review should be used as the basis for establishing future U.S. strategic arms control objectives and negotiating positions. Prohibits the appropriation or availability of funds for the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program for FY2008-FY2010 until reports on the above reviews have been submitted to Congress.

Date: 2007-08-01
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Strategic Deterrent Sustainment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the congressional defense committees respecting the capability of the U.S. industrial base to: (1) maintain, modernize, and sustain the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system until at least 2030; and (2) replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with a follow-on land-based strategic deterrent system after 2030.

Date: 2007-09-11
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
National Guard and Reserve Medical Readiness Act of 2008 - Revises the effective date for being considered on active duty, for purposes of entitlement to active-duty medical and dental care, for members of the reserves receiving an alert order anticipating a call or order to active duty in support of a contingency operation.

Date: 2008-04-14
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to extend through April 1, 2009, the approval of specified waivers under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act for the MinnesotaCare Medicaid demonstration project.

Date: 2008-09-10
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Health
Requires the Secretary of Defense: (1) in the case of a member of the Armed Forces who is exposed to a potentially harmful material or contaminant, to notify the member of such exposure and any associated health risks; and (2) in the case of a member of a reserve component, to also notify the state military department of that member. Directs the Secretary, if such a determination is made while a member is deployed, to notify the member while the member is so deployed.

Date: 2009-03-19
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Rural Aviation Improvement Act - Repeals the Essential Air Service Local Participation Program. Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from compensating an air carrier for providing essential air service to an eligible community in the 48 contiguous states if such community: (1) is located fewer than 70 miles from a large or medium hub airport; or (2) is fewer than 210 miles from a large or medium hub airport and providing such air transportation would require a per passenger subsidy in excess of $200 for calendar year 2010, including any increase or decrease for each ensuing calendar year. Authorizes a state or local government to submit a proposal to the Secretary to: (1) compensate an air carrier for essential air service to an eligible community above the $200 per passenger subsidy cap; (2) compensate a preferred air carrier for providing such service (i.e., an air carrier preferred by the affected community although it is not the lowest bidder); and (3) restore the eligibility of a community to receive subsidized essential air service. Requires the Secretary, in determining compensation (or eligibility for it) for essential air service based on highway mileage, to use the highway mileage of the most commonly used route between the eligible community and the nearest large or medium hub airport. Establishes within the Office of the Secretary the Office of Rural Aviation. Requires adjustment of compensation to air carriers for providing essential air service in order to take into account significant increases in fuel costs. Directs the Secretary to treat passenger boardings on aircraft operated by charter air carriers at airports receiving essential air service as passenger boardings for purposes of making apportionments of airport improvement grant funds.

Date: 2009-05-06
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Transportation and public works
Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) shall submit to the congressional defense committees written notification of: (1) the status with respect to compliance with the body armor procurement line item requirement under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, and (2) the reasons why the Secretary has failed to comply with such requirement.

Date: 2011-05-04
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from planning or executing the permanent relocation of any C-130 aircraft assigned to Pittsburgh IAP Air Reserve Station (Pennsylvania) as of the date of enactment of this Act. Directs such Secretary to ensure that the number of such aircraft so assigned as of September 30, 2012, equals or exceeds the number assigned as of October 1, 2011.

Date: 2012-02-07
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act - Prohibits using funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2013 or thereafter: (1) to arm a B-2 or B-52 aircraft with a nuclear weapon; (2) for the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) or procurement of a long-range penetrating bomber aircraft; (3) to make the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons; or (4) for the B61 or W78 life extension program. Requires that, beginning in FY2013, the Navy shall include no more than eight operational ballistic-missile submarines available for deployment. Prohibits the use of DOD funds: (1) for FY2013-FY2023 to procure an SSBN-X submarine, and (2) for FY2024 and thereafter to procure more than eight such submarines. Prohibits using DOD funds for FY2013 or thereafter: (1) to maintain more than 200 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), (2) to maintain more than 250 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, (3) for the RDT&E or procurement of a new ICBM, or (4) for the medium extended air defense system. Prohibits using DOD or Department of Energy (DOE) funds for FY2013 or thereafter for: (1) the mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility project, (2) the chemistry and metallurgy research replacement nuclear facility, and (3) the uranium processing facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Requires an initial and subsequent annual reports from the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to Congress outlining their respective plans to carry out the requirements of this Act. Directs the President to submit annually to Congress a comprehensive accounting by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of the amounts obligated or expended by the federal government for each nuclear weapon and related nuclear program during the fiscal year covered by the report and the life cycle of such weapon or program.

Date: 2012-02-08
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Military Readiness and Southern Sea Otter Conservation Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish Southern Sea Otter Military Readiness Areas for national defense purposes (thereby conserving the southern sea otter [otter] in such Areas while allowing reasonable military readiness activities). Allows certain incidental otter takings in such Areas in the course of a military readiness activity, while authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to revise or terminate such authorized takings upon determining that the military activities are substantially impeding otter conservation or the return of such otters to optimum sustainable levels. Directs: (1) the Secretary of the Navy to monitor the Areas, at least annually, to evaluate otter status; and (2) the Secretaries of the Navy and the Interior to report jointly every three years to Congress and the public on such monitoring. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon ending a specified otter relocation and management plan and in planning and implementing recovery and conservation measures to allow for the expansion of otter range, to coordinate and cooperate with: (1) the Secretary of the Navy, (2) the Secretary of Commerce regarding recovery efforts for endangered species, and (3) the state of California in continuing viable commercial harvest of state fisheries.

Date: 2012-02-15
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Limited End Strength Reduction Act of 2012 - Directs the President, upon determining that a reduction in end strength of the regular Army or Marine Corps (or both) is necessary for any of FY2014-FY2017, to submit to Congress with the budget request for that year a certification that such reduction, should the assumptions of the most recent National Security Strategy prove to be incorrect, will not: (1) undermine the ability of the Armed Forces to meet the requirements of the Strategy, (2) increase U.S. security risks, or (3) compel members of the Armed Forces to endure diminished dwell time and repeated deployments. Prohibits: (1) the Army end strength from being reduced by more than 15,000 during each such year from the end strength of the preceding year; and (2) the Marine Corps end strength from being reduced by more than 5,000 in the same manner. Requires the defense budget for each such year: (1) to include amounts for maintaining an end strength sufficient to comply with current active-duty end strength requirements; and (2) to not rely on any emergency, supplemental, or overseas contingency operations funding.

Date: 2012-03-28
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Strategic Airlift Force Structure Reform Act of 2011 - Reduces the minimum inventory of strategic airlift aircraft required to be maintained by the Secretary of the Air Force to 301 aircraft. (Current law requires the Secretary to maintain at least 316 of such aircraft.)

Date: 2011-10-13
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from planning or executing the permanent relocation of any F-16 aircraft assigned to Eielson Air Force Base (Alaska) as of the date of enactment of this Act. Directs such Secretary to ensure that the number of such aircraft assigned to Eielson as of September 30, 2012, equals or exceeds the number assigned as of October 1, 2011.

Date: 2012-02-06
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Simulated Tactical Flight Training Study Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to provide for an appropriate federally funded research and development center to study the effectiveness of simulated tactical flight training in a sustained gravity environment.

Date: 2012-09-19
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Abolishes the Army Chemical Corps and transfers its functions to the Army Ordnance Corps. Directs the Secretary of the Army to reassign to the Ordnance Corps all members and officers of the Army who were assigned to the Chemical Corps.

Date: 2014-09-18
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Survivors of Military Sexual Assault and Domestic Abuse Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide counseling and care and services for sexual trauma to active-duty members of the Armed Forces. (Under current law, such services are provided only to veterans.) Prohibits such a member from being required to obtain a referral before receiving such services.

Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a screening mechanism to be used when a veteran seeks VA health care services to detect if such veteran has been a victim of domestic abuse in order to improve such treatment and assess the prevalence of such abuse in the veteran population.

Requires the Secretary to report to the congressional veterans committees on treatment and services available from the VA for male veterans who experience military sexual trauma compared to such treatment and services available to female veterans who experience such trauma.

Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense Joint Executive Committee, annually for a six-year period, to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the transition from the Department of Defense (DOD) to the VA of treatment of individuals who have experienced military sexual trauma or domestic abuse.

Date: 2013-10-28
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Protecting Our Security Through Utilizing Right-Sized End-Strength Act of 2016 or the POSTURE Act

This bill expresses the sense of Congress that given the uncertain world and the need for trained and ready U.S. land force, the planned drawdown of land forces should be stopped.

The bill sets forth:

 FY2016 Army, Marine Corps, and Selected Reserve strength levels; and Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force permanent active duty end strength minimum levels. Any proposal to lower the end strength levels established by this Act must first be approved by Congress through enactment of a law to that effect.

Date: 2016-02-11
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Army Arsenal Revitalization Act of 2016

This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to report to Congress regarding DOD legacy items with a contract value equal to $5 million or more.

DOD shall use Army arsenals for the production of these legacy items.

DOD shall: (1) report to Congress listing all sole source contracts for the procurement of manufactured items the lack of which would constitute a critical national security issue, and (2) establish Army arsenals as a second source for production of any such manufactured item.

DOD shall report to Congress regarding:

 DOD contracts awarded during FY2011-FY2015 using other than competitive procedures for the procurement of equipment, weapons, weapons systems, and components with a contract value of $3 million or more; plans to update practices on Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS), including through the use of the organic industrial base as a resource in the implementation of a DMSMS management plan; and critical capabilities and minimum workloads of the Army arsenals, and fundamental elements for implementing the United States Army Organic Industrial Base Strategic Plan 2012-2022. DOD shall establish a three-year pilot program to permit Army arsenals to adjust their labor rates periodically throughout the year based upon changes in workload and other factors.

Date: 2016-03-03
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Long Range Bomber Sustainment Act of 2015 

This bill prohibits a B-1, B-2, or B-52 bomber aircraft from being retired during a fiscal year unless the Secretary of Defense certifies that:

 the retirement of the aircraft will not detrimentally affect the U.S. Armed Forces' capacity to carry out the full range of long range bomber aircraft missions anticipated in operational plans of the Armed Forces in effect as of the date of the submission of that certification; the Secretary has completed assessments of planning scenarios that span the range of plausible future challenges for such aircraft, and the severity, likelihood, and imminence of risk associated with each such planning scenario; the Secretary has concluded, based on such assessments, that retirements of B-1, B-2, and B-52 bomber aircraft in the near term will not detrimentally affect operational capability; and the Secretary has developed a plan to replace any operational capability lost as a result of the retirement of such bomber aircraft.

Date: 2015-05-11
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Long Range Strike Aircraft Mix Act of 2015

This bill directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on the results of a to-be-performed independent study that determines a future mix for the Armed Forces of: (1) shorter range fighter-class strike aircraft and long-range strike aircraft platforms, and (2) manned aerial platforms and unmanned aerial platforms.

Date: 2015-06-02
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Army Arsenal Revitalization Act of 2016

This bill requires the Defense Logistics Agency to report to Congress regarding Department of Defense (DOD) legacy items with a contract value equal to $5 million or more.

DOD shall use Army arsenals for the production of these legacy items.

DOD shall: (1) report to Congress listing all sole source contracts for the procurement of manufactured items the lack of which would constitute a critical national security issue, and (2) establish Army arsenals as a second source for production of any such manufactured item.

DOD shall report to Congress regarding:

 DOD contracts awarded during FY2011-FY2015 using noncompetitive procedures for the procurement of equipment, weapons, weapons systems, and components with a contract value of $3 million or more; plans to update practices on Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS), including through the use of the organic industrial base as a resource in the implementation of a DMSMS management plan; and critical capabilities and minimum workloads of the Army arsenals, and fundamental elements for implementing the United States Army Organic Industrial Base Strategic Plan 2012-2022. DOD shall establish a three-year pilot program to permit Army arsenals to adjust their labor rates periodically throughout the year based upon changes in workload and other factors.

Date: 2016-02-09
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Protecting Our Security Through Utilizing Right-Sized End-Strengths Act of 2016 or the POSTURE Act of 2016

This bill expresses the sense of Congress that given the uncertain world and the need for trained and ready U.S. land forces, the planned drawdown of land forces should cease.

The bill sets forth:

 Army, Marine Corps, and Selected Reserve strength levels as of September 30, 2016; and Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force permanent active duty end strength minimum levels.

Date: 2016-02-22
Topic: Defense (Readiness)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Executive Branch Prosecutions Act of 2007 - Excludes from any period of limitation for the bringing of a criminal action against an individual holding the office of President or Vice President the time during which such individual held either office.

Date: 2007-11-14
Topic: Government Operations (Scandals)
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Includes participation in clean-up operations at Eniwetok Atoll as a radiation-risk activity for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Date: 2008-01-03
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Authorizes the Secretary of a military department, and the Secretary of Defense for a Defense Agency, when engaged or proposing to engage in military testing, operations, training, or another military readiness activity or military construction that may or will result in an adverse impact to one or more species protected (or pending protection) under any applicable provision of law, or habitat for such species, to make payments to a conservation banking program or "in-lieu-fee" mitigation sponsor approved in accordance with the Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Banks, the Guidance for the Establishment, Use, and Operation of Conservation Banks or any successor or related administrative guidance or regulation. Allows such payments to a conservation banking program or "in-lieu-fee" mitigation sponsor for military construction to be treated as eligible costs of the construction project.

Date: 2008-05-08
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to reauthorize, and increase the maximum mandatory amounts in, the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.Directs the Secretary of Energy to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the manner in which proceeds from the sale of the product of the enrichment of uranium tailings may be used to reduce or supplement the amount of appropriations necessary to: (1) fund the Fund; and (2) provide assistance to local governments and community reuse organizations at sites eligible for assistance from the Fund.

Date: 2007-10-18
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Energy
Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act - Deems the resumption of underground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site or the use of any other location for such testing to be a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment for which a separate environmental impact statement is required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Outlines information required to be included in such statement, including: (1) the possibility of radiation containment failure and the effects of such failure; (2) possible long-term effects on the water table from underground radiation leakage; and (3) information with respect to categories of weapons subject to testing.Prohibits the United States from resuming any such testing unless authorized by a law enacted after the enactment of this Act.Requires: (1) advance (seven days) public notice of each test; (2) prompt notice of each release of radiation resulting from a test; and (3) a study by the National Academy of Sciences on the safety and health of citizens in the vicinity of the Site. Establishes a Nevada Test Site Citizens Review Board to address environmental, health, and safety issues related to nuclear testing at the Site.Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to make grants to institutions of higher education to acquire and operate for ten years radiation detection equipment and sensors.Directs the Secretary of Energy, through the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to monitor any radiation released into the atmosphere as a result of such testing. Requires: (1) DOE radiation containment assessment; and (2) public notice of monitoring data.Requires the: (1) Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make a grant to establish the National Center for the Study of Radiation and Human Health; and (2) Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study of individuals exposed to nuclear weapons tests.

Date: 2007-10-19
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Vessel Discharge Evaluation and Review Act - Directs the Coast Guard's Commandant to conduct an evaluation of vessel discharges, other than aquatic nuisance species, and report to specified congressional committees. Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to suspend, beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and notwithstanding any other provision of law, any requirement to obtain a permit for a discharge incidental to the normal operation of a vessel. Requires promulgation of a final rule establishing enforceable uniform national discharge standards modeled on the regulatory program for vessels of the Armed Forces and based upon the best available technology. Preempts related state and local laws regarding a discharge incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, subject to exception. Lists certain discharges that are unaffected by or excluded from this Act, including Armed Forces vessels, discharges of vessel sewage, and discharges related to aquatic nuisance species. Makes this Act, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the exclusive statutory authority for federal regulation of vessel discharges to which these provisions apply.

Date: 2008-02-14
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Environmental protection
Makes permanent the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for any illness to a veteran who participated in a test conducted by the Department of Defense (DOD) Deseret Test Center as part of a program for chemical and biological warfare testing from 1962 through 1973 (including Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense [SHAD] and related land-based tests), notwithstanding that there is insufficient medical evidence to conclude that the illness is attributable to such testing. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies to conduct an expanded study on the health impact of Project SHAD. Requires the study to include, as practicable, all veterans who participated in Project SHAD.

Date: 2008-04-29
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Depleted Uranium Screening and Testing Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) establish procedures for the predeployment notification to members of the Armed Forces of any known or likely use of depleted uranium in a theater of operations and any health risks associated with exposure to depleted uranium; (2) provide for training deploying members on the safe handling of depleted uranium contamination; (3) carry out a program to identify individuals exposed to depleted uranium during active service in the Armed Forces; (4) provide such individuals with bioassay testing and notification of test results; and (5) identify specified depleted uranium exposure events. Requires the Secretary of each military department to establish procedures for collecting, tracking, and maintaining information on the health status of individuals tested under this Act to assess long-term health consequences of exposure to depleted uranium. Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct an independent review of bioassay types and contamination thresholds for purposes of required testing. Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide appropriate treatment for any illness of an individual resulting from depleted uranium contamination or exposure. Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to conduct a survey of radioisotope identification equipment used by the Department of Defense (DOD) to assess the capability of DOD facilities to identify concentrations of different radioisotopes in naturally occurring levels of uranium and to report survey findings to Congress.

Date: 2009-01-06
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to jointly carry out a study on the use of thorium-liquid fueled nuclear reactors for naval power needs under a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 which requires any new major combatant vessels for the U.S. strike force to be constructed with an integrated nuclear power system.

Date: 2009-03-16
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Requires funds generated by fees collected during FY2010-FY2015 for admission to or for using recreation facilities located in public recreation areas at Denison Dam, Lake Texoma, Texas and Oklahoma, to be retained by the Secretary of the Army and used to cover the cost of repairing any federally owned recreation structure, facility, or real property at Lake Texoma damaged as a result of flooding prior to September 30, 2007.

Date: 2009-05-07
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Military Personnel War Zone Toxic Exposure Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and administer a system to identify members of the Armed Forces who were potentially exposed to a hazardous disposal site, as well as any negative health effects that may be related to such exposure. Requires the Secretary to: (1) administer the system using existing medical surveillance systems; (2) notify a member and his or her commanding officer of a potential exposure; (3) for each member notified, collect information for purposes of the system; (4) for each member notified, annually provide a complete physical examination and related consultation and counseling; and (5) determine, and report to Congress on, whether existing surveillance systems are sufficient to identify all potential negative health effects resulting from such exposure.

Date: 2009-05-14
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Military Personnel Toxic Exposure Registry Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish and administer a system to identify members of the Armed Forces who were potentially exposed to a hazardous disposal site, as well as any negative health effects that may be related to such exposure. Requires the Secretary to: (1) administer the system using existing medical surveillance systems; (2) notify a member and his or her commanding officer of a potential exposure; (3) for each member notified, collect information for purposes of the system; (4) for each member notified, annually provide a complete physical examination and related consultation and counseling; and (5) report annually to the congressional defense committees on the status of system implementation and incidences of illnesses which may have been caused by such exposure. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to: (1) include solid waste containing plastics within the definition of "covered waste" for purposes of a prohibition against the disposal by the Armed Forces of covered waste in open-air burn pits during contingency operations; and (2) include in a required report concerning the use of such pits those situations in which such pits were used to dispose of waste during military exercises and operations worldwide during the period beginning on September 11, 2001, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act.

Date: 2010-01-20
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Sikes Act Amendments Act of 2010 - Amends the Sikes Act (conservation programs on military installations and facilities) to include under such Act's coverage state-owned facilities used for National Guard training. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to develop and implement an integrated natural resources management plan for a state-owned National Guard installation. Outlines plan elements and requires such plans to be reviewed at least every five years. Makes permanent and expands (under current law, a pilot program for FY2009-FY2014 limited to Guam) the program for invasive species management for military installations.

Date: 2010-05-12
Topic: Defense (Hazardous Waste)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources