| HB5828 | Intro
Sine Die | USA Retirement Funds Act - Requires each employer (except certain small employers, governments, and churches) that does not maintain a qualifying plan or arrangement meeting specified criteria for any part of a calendar year to make available to each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5825 | Intro
Sine Die | No Healthcare Subsidies for Foreign Diplomats Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax credit for the cost of health insurance premiums and health insurance cost-sharing reductions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB2995 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Water Compliance and Affordability Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB5835 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive TB Elimination Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB5829 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax exemption for private activity bond interest if the proceeds from such a bond are to be used for basic research (i.e., any original investigation for the advancement of scientific knowledge not having a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5701 | Engross
Sine Die | Western Oregon Indian Tribal Lands Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to accept title to any additional acres of real property located within the boundaries of the original 1857 reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5833 | Intro
Sine Die | Taxpayer Protections Against Abusive Seizures Act - Requires notice of a right to request a court hearing to each person whose property is seized or restrained because of an alleged violation of the prohibition against structuring transactions to eva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB2993 | Intro
Sine Die | Students Before Profits Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to require the Secretary of Education to: (1) use corrected data and information to recalculate the cohort default rates for institutions of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB5843 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act, with respect to protections for credit reports of minor consumers, to require a consumer reporting agency, upon request by the legal guardian or custodian of a minor consumer (including the state or tribal agency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | Child and Dependent Care FSA Enhancement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $7,500 the amount of employer-provided dependent care assistance that an employee may exclude from gross income. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB5832 | Intro
Sine Die | Proudly Restoring Officers of Prior Enlistment Retirement Act or the PROPER Act - Reduces to four the number of years that previously enlisted commissioned officers who have performed a certain minimum number of years of military service to become el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Armed Services Committee |
| HR777 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the 66th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the celebration of Human Rights Day. Supports the ideals of human rights and reaffirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Encourages all nations to continue work...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB2991 | Intro
Sine Die | Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2990 | Intro
Sine Die | State Trade and Export Promotion Utilization Program for American Small Businesses Act or the STEP UP for American Small Businesses Act - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Associate Administrator for International Trade within the Small Bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB5811 | Intro
Sine Die | Volunteer Emergency Responders Tax Deduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat firefighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, civil air patrol, and emergency rescue services rendered by a bona fide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5824 | Intro
Sine Die | American Anti-Torture Act of 2014 - Amends the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to prohibit any person in the custody or control of the United States (under current law, persons under the custody or control of the Department of Defense [DOD] or under d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB5813 | Intro
Sine Die | U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Improvement Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Maritime Administration to: accept a gift of money from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation, Inc. in order to renovate Melvill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Armed Services Committee |
| HB5817 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to deem any member of the Armed Forces who died between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2005, to have died on January 1, 2006, for purposes of the eligibility of such member's su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5823 | Intro
Sine Die | Incentivizing Healthcare Quality Outcomes Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. in order to incentivize healthcare quality outcomes, to prescribe specific adjustment factors for incentive payments to: (1) healthcare ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5794 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16105 Swingley Ridge Road in Chesterfield, Missouri, as the "Sgt. Zachary M. Fisher Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1217 | Intro
Sine Die | Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2014 - Title I: Elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - (Section 101) Directs the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation (FMIC ) established under title II of this Act to take all steps necess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| HB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 501 East Court Street in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5146 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 700 Grant Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the "Joseph F. Weis Jr. United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB1675 | Intro
Sine Die | Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Directs the Attorney General to: (1) conduct a review of recidivism reduction programming and productive activities, including prison jobs, offered in correctional institutions; (2) conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. |
| SB2235 | Intro
Sine Die | Democracy Restoration Act of 2014 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless, at the time of the elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. |
| HB5709 | Intro
Sine Die | Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act of 2014 or the SISA Act - Amends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, the Iran ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB5711 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the federal criminal code to remove the requirement that a hate crime involve conduct in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB5719 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2014 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because the individual has been convicted of a non-violent criminal offense, unless, at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| SB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Amends the federal criminal code to direct the court to impose a sentence for specified controlled substance offenses without regard to any statutory minimum sentence if the court finds that the defendant: (1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. |
| HB5385 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 55 Grasso Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri, as the "Sgt. Amanda N. Pinson Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5695 | Intro
Sine Die | Treason and Passport Revocation Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to include an organization that the Secretary of State has designated as a foreign terrorist organization as an enemy of the United States for purposes of the crime of tre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| SB2520 | Engross
Sine Die | FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to: (1) require federal agencies to make agency records that can be disclosed under such Act available for public inspection in an electronic format, (2) limit the authority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Held at the desk. |
| HB4320 | Intro
Sine Die | Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to require that no investigative hearing take place until at least 14 days after the filing of an election pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 491. |
| HB5746 | Intro
Sine Die | Keeping America Safe from Ebola Act of 2014 - Defines "covered alien" as an alien: (1) who is a national or a resident of a country designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as one with widespread transmission of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB5761 | Intro
Sine Die | Defense of Legal Workers Act of 2014 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) exclude from the definition of "unauthorized alien," with respect to the unlawful employment of aliens, any alien otherwise admitted to and lawfully p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise a community children and violence program to assist local communities and schools in applying a public health approach to mental health services, including by: (1) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. Hearings held. |
| HB5759 | Engross
Sine Die | Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014 - Prohibits the executive branch of the government from: exempting or deferring from removal, by executive order, regulation, or any other means, categories of aliens considered under the im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 626. |
| HB5735 | Intro
Sine Die | Grant Residency for Additional Doctors Act of 2014 or the GRAD Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of State to designate a Department of State officer or employee whose sole responsibility during the months of March, April, May, June, and any other p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB5768 | Intro
Sine Die | Separation of Powers Act of 2014 - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to any federal department or agency to: parole an alien into the United States or grant deferred action on a final order of removal for any reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| SR413 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the designation by the United Nations (U.N.) of April 7th as the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda. Honors the memory of the more than 800,000 victims of the Rwandan genocide. Affirms that it is in the U.S. nation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amended preamble by Voice. (text: CR 12/10/14 S6579) |
| SB1038 | Intro
Sine Die | End Racial Profiling Act of 2013 - Prohibits any law enforcement agent or agency from engaging in racial profiling. Grants the United States or an individual injured by racial profiling the right to obtain declaratory or injunctive relief. Requires f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. |
| SB2692 | Intro
Sine Die | Campus Accountability and Safety Act - Amends provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) that partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. Hearings held. |
| SB1945 | Intro
Sine Die | Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 - Amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with respect to the requirement that a federal court retain jurisdiction for an appropriate period to prevent commencement of new devices to deny or abridge the right to vote....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. |
| SB1447 | Engross
Sine Die | New Mexico Navajo Water Settlement Technical Corrections Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to expand the current authorization for the construction or rehabilitation and operation and maintenance of conjunctive use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Water and Power |
| SB2946 | Intro
Sine Die | Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 625. |
| HB4489 | Intro
Sine Die | World War I Memorial Act of 2014 - Designates the Liberty Memorial of Kansas City at America's National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Museum and Memorial. Redesignates Pershing Park in the District of Columb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 486. |
| HB4309 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Sikes Act (conservation programs on federal lands) to allow funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) that are obligated to cooperative agreements with states, local governments, Indian tribes, nongovernmental organizations, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 485. |
| HB5683 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring Access to Justice for Claims Against the United States Act - Amends the federal judicial code with respect to the jurisdiction of federal courts over civil actions pending in, or on appeal from, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (USCFC) when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 488. |
| SJR45 | Engross
Sine Die | Reappoints David M. Rubenstein as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
To House Administration Committee |
| HCR120 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on December 10, 2014, for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
