| HB6186 | Engross
Sine Die | Follow the Rules Act (Sec. 2) This bill extends the prohibition against a person taking, failing to take, or threatening to take or fail to take a personnel action against any employee or applicant for employment for refusing to obey an order that wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
Received in the Senate. |
| SB3386 | Engross
Sine Die | Silver Star Service Banner Day Act (Sec. 3) This bill designates May 1 as Silver Star Service Banner Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
Held at the desk. |
| HB6009 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Agency Mail Management Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 to require the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide guidance and assistance to federal agencies for effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5384 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Register Printing Savings Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill bars the Government Publishing Office, effective January 1, 2017, from furnishing a printed copy of the Federal Register without charge to any Member of Congress or any other office of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5047 | Engross
Sine Die | Protecting Veterans' Educational Choice Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill requires Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) counselors who provide specified educational or vocational counseling services to provide a requesting veteran or member of the Armed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
Received in the Senate. |
| HCR122 | Engross
Sine Die | PROTECT Patrimony Resolution Protection of the Right of Tribes to stop the Export of Cultural and Traditional Patrimony Resolution (Sec. 4) Condemns the theft, illegal possession or sale, transfer, and export of tribal cultural items.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB2992 | Engross
Sine Die | Merchant Marine of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act This bill requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the award, on behalf of Congress, of a single gold medal to the U.S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-01
Received in the Senate. |
| HCR165 | Engross
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of Congress and reaffirming longstanding United States policy in support of a direct bilaterally negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and opposition to United Nations Security Council resolutions imposing a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| SB3438 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major medical facility project in Reno, Nevada. This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major medical facility project that consists of seismic, life ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB6135 | Engross
Sine Die | To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 719 Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and United States Courthouse". This bill designates the federal building and U.S. courthous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5843 | Engross
Sine Die | United States-Israel Cybersecurity Cooperation Enhancement Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a grant program to support cybersecurity research and development, and the demonstration and com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5600 | Engross
Sine Die | No Hero Left Untreated Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a one-year pilot program to provide access to magnetic EEG/EKG-guided resonance therapy technology to larger populations of veterans suffering from pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5458 | Engross
Sine Die | Veterans TRICARE Choice Act of 2016 This bill allows, as of January 1, 2017, an individual who is eligible to be a covered beneficiary entitled to health care benefits under the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5422 | Engross
Sine Die | To ensure funding for the National Human Trafficking Hotline, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) This bill amends the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 to eliminate the provision that specifies that Department of Health and Hum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5166 | Engross
Sine Die | WINGMAN Act Working to Integrate Networks Guaranteeing Member Access Now Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide an accredited, permanent congressional employee with read-only remote access to the electronic Veterans ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5160 | Engross
Sine Die | To amend title 40, United States Code, to include as part of the buildings and grounds of the National Gallery of Art any buildings and other areas within the boundaries of any real estate or other property interests acquired by the National Gallery ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB4757 | Engross
Sine Die | To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the eligibility for headstones, markers, and medallions furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for deceased individuals who were awarded the Medal of Honor and are buried in private cemeteries....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB3286 | Engross
Sine Die | HIRE Vets Act Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Labor to establish a HIRE Vets Medallion Program to solicit voluntary information from employers for pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Received in the Senate. |
| SB461 | Engross
Sine Die | Cross-Border Trade Enhancement Act of 2016 Authorizes the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to enter into agreements with certain persons for the CBP to provide customs, agricultural processing, border security, or inspection-r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-30
Held at the desk. |
| SB2325 | Engross
Sine Die | Digital Coast Act This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a constituent-driven Digital Coast program. (This program currently exists under NOAA to provide data, tools, and training that communities u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-29
Held at the desk. |
| HB5982 | Engross
Sine Die | Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Congressional Review Act to allow Congress to consider a joint resolution to disapprove multiple regulations that federal agencies have submitted for congressional review within the last...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-28
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5711 | Engross
Sine Die | No U.S. Financing for Iran Act TITLE I--IRAN FINANCING PROHIBITION (Sec. 101) This bill prohibits the Department of the Treasury from authorizing U.S. financial institution transactions in connection with the export or re-export of commercial passeng...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-28
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB434 | Engross
Sine Die | Security Clearance Accountability, Reform, and Enhancement Act of 2015 TITLE I--SECURITY CLEARANCE ACCOUNTABILITY, REFORM, AND ENHANCEMENT (Sec. 102) This bill: (1) deems a federal agency employee to be unfit for federal employment if the agency dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-18
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5732 | Engross
Sine Die | Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-16
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5332 | Engross
Sine Die | Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2016 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should be a global leader in promoting the meaningful participation of women in conflict prevention, management, and resolution and post-conflict ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-16
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB2566 | Engross
Sine Die | Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require intermediate providers that offer the capability to transmit voice communications and signaling information from one destinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-16
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 668. |
| HB6094 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulatory Relief for Small Businesses, Schools, and Nonprofits Act (Sec. 2) This bill postpones from December 1, 2016, until June 1, 2017, the effective date of a final rule of the Department of Labor (81 Fed. Reg. 32552 [May 23, 2016]) revising inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 662. |
| SB2959 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund. (Sec. 1) This bill amends the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans |
| HB4365 | Engross
Sine Die | Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration to register an emergency medical services (EMS) agency as an entity authorized to dispense con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Received in the Senate. |
| HB2713 | Engross
Sine Die | Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2016 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to extend through FY2020 nursing programs, including programs for advanced education nursing, loan repayment and scholarships for nurses, loans fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB2669 | Engross
Sine Die | Anti-Spoofing Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to expand the prohibition against knowingly transmitting misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to apply to: (1) persons outside the United States ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Improving Access to Maternity Care Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Health Resources and Services Administration to designate maternity care health professional shortage areas and review these designations at least an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB1192 | Engross
Sine Die | National Clinical Care Commission Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the National Clinical Care Commission to evaluate and recommend solutions regarding be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB985 | Engross
Sine Die | Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2015 (Sec. 4) This bill directs the Department of Commerce to issue orders applicable to manufacturers of concrete masonry products. An order regarding the generic research, educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Received in the Senate. |
| SCR55 | Engross
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1916 opening of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the 2016 opening of the new Texas A&M Veterinary & Biomedical Education complex in College Stati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Held at the desk. |
| SB2360 | Engross
Sine Die | Omnibus Territories Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1982, to eliminate the restriction on the use of resettlement and relocation funds by people of the Bikini Atoll for resettlement and relocation to areas o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Held at the desk. |
| HCR166 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for a conditional adjournment of the House of Representatives. Declares that when the House adjourns on any legislative day from Wednesday, September 28, 2016, through Friday, November 11, 2016, it stand adjourned until 2 p.m. on Monday, No...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-29
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB5303 | Engross
Sine Die | Water Resources Development Act of 2016 TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS (Sec. 101) This title expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) water resources development projects are critical to maintaining economic prosperity, national security, and environme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-29
Received in the Senate. |
| HB954 | Engross
Sine Die | CO-OP Consumer Protection Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to temporarily exempt from penalties for failing to purchase and maintain minimum essential health care coverage individuals whose coverage under a plan offered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-29
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 653. |
| SCR53 | Engross
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 5325. Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 5325 to change the title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-28
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB5391 | Engross
Sine Die | Gains in Global Nuclear Detection Architecture Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, in conducting research and development to generate and improve technologies to detect and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-28
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1886 | Engross
Sine Die | Coordinated Ocean Monitoring and Research Act This bill revises and reauthorizes through FY2019 the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009. The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is a network of federal and regional entitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-28
To House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans |
| SB253 | Engross
Sine Die | Communications Act Update Act of 2016 TITLE I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION PROCESS REFORM (Sec. 101) This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to complete a rulemaking proceeding to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-28
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill. |
| HB5978 | Engross
Sine Die | Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Amendments Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB5963 | Engross
Sine Die | Supporting Youth Opportunity and Preventing Delinquency Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 649. |
| HB5943 | Engross
Sine Die | Transit Security Grant Program Flexibility Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 to permit the use of public transportation security assistance grant funds for backfill associated with secur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5460 | Engross
Sine Die | First Responder Access to Innovative Technologies Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to implement a uniform process for reviewing applications that contain explanat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5459 | Engross
Sine Die | Cyber Preparedness Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative to coordinate with the national cybersecurity and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5346 | Engross
Sine Die | Securing our Agriculture and Food Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs to carry out a program to coordinate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) efforts related to defen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5162 | Engross
Sine Die | Vet Connect Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to disclose to non-VA entities that provide hospital care or medical treatment to veterans (including private entities and other federal agencies) records o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
