| HB1734 | Engross
Sine Die | Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends subtitle D (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to establish a permit program for coal combustion residuals (coal ash) th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB1732 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulatory Integrity Protection Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw, within 30 days, the proposed rule, "Definition of 'Waters of the United States' Under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB1567 | Engross
Sine Die | Global Food Security Act of 2016 This bill requires the President to develop and implement a Global Food Security Strategy to promote global food security, resilience, and nutrition. (Sec. 2) This section specifies that it is in the U.S. national sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB1560 | Engross
Sine Die | National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015 Protecting Cyber Networks Act Short Titles as Reported to House: Protecting Cyber Networks Act TITLE I--PROTECTING CYBER NETWORKS ACT Protecting Cyber Networks Act (Sec. 102) Amends the Natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1462 | Engross
Sine Die | Protecting Our Infants Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) This bill requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to report on prenatal opioid abuse and neonatal abstinence syndrome (symptoms of withdrawal in a newborn). (An opioid is a drug with effects...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5195) |
| HB897 | Engross
Sine Die | Zika Vector Control Act This bill amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency or a state fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 570. |
| HB805 | Engross
Sine Die | DOTCOM Act of 2015 Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act of 2015 Prohibits the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information from permitting the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB304 | Engross
Sine Die | Conscience Protection Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to codify the prohibition against the federal government and state and local governments that receive federal financial assistance for health-related activities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill. |
| HB10 | Engross
Sine Die | SOAR Reauthorization Act Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Reauthorization Act (Sec. 3) This bill amends the District of Columbia Code to prohibit the Department of Education from limiting the number of eligible students receiving District of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 561. |
| HB5658 | Engross
Sine Die | TALENT Act of 2016 Tested Ability to Leverage Exceptional National Talent Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill codifies provisions establishing the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program (originally established pursuant to Executive Order 13704) to encour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5421 | Engross
Sine Die | National Securities Exchange Regulatory Parity Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Securities Act of 1933, regarding the exemption of certain securities from state regulation, to replace limitations based upon listing on specific stock exchange...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4768 | Engross
Sine Die | Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2016 This bill modifies the scope of judicial review of agency actions to authorize courts reviewing agency actions to decide de novo (without giving deference to the agency's interpretation) all relevant quest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4639 | Engross
Sine Die | Thoroughly Investigating Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 to reauthorize through FY2020 the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), an independent federal investigative and prosecutori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB3394 | Engross
Sine Die | CAPTIVE Act Clarifying Amendment to Provide Terrorism Victims Equity Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow a person's court-awarded judgment against a terrorist party that is based on an act of terrorism to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Received in the Senate. |
| HB1656 | Engross
Sine Die | Secret Service Improvements Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly causing an autonomous or remotely operated vehicle or dangerous weapon to enter any restricted building or grounds so that it impedes or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 560. |
| HB5639 | Engross
Sine Die | National Institute of Standards and Technology Improvement Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (NISTA) to authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB5638 | Engross
Sine Die | Solar Fuels Innovation Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by requiring the Department of Energy (DOE) to carry out the Solar Fuels Basic Research Initiative to expand scientific knowledge about converting solar energy into chemical en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB5640 | Engross
Sine Die | Electricity Storage Innovation Act (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative. The initiative is designed to expand knowledge related to the control, storage, and conversi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB5636 | Engross
Sine Die | National Institute of Standards and Technology Campus Security Act (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Commerce Office of Security to manage the law enforcement and security programs of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB5607 | Engross
Sine Die | Enhancing Treasury's Anti-Terror Tools Act (Sec. 2) This bill instructs the Department of the Treasury to report to Congress on the employment by U.S. embassies of full-time and temporary Treasury attaches and their role in advancing U.S. anti-terror...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB5594 | Engross
Sine Die | National Strategy for Combating Terrorist, Underground, and Other Illicit Financing Act (Sec. 3) This bill directs the President, acting through the Department of the Treasury, to develop a national strategy for combating the financing of terrorism a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB5529 | Engross
Sine Die | Accessing Higher Education Opportunities Act This bill amends title V (Developing Institutions) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand grant activities under the Hispanic Serving Institutions program to include: (1) support programs that facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HCR138 | Engross
Sine Die | Designating the George C. Marshall Museum and George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Virginia, as the National George C. Marshall Museum and Library. Designates the George C. Marshall Museum and George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB5530 | Engross
Sine Die | HBCU Capital Financing Improvement Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB5528 | Engross
Sine Die | Simplifying the Application for Student Aid Act This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Department of Education (ED) to use tax information from the second preceding tax year (the "prior, prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB5485 | Engross
Sine Die | Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2017 Provides FY2017 appropriations for financial services and general government, including programs within the Department of the Treasury, the Executive Office of the President, the fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 557. |
| HB5469 | Engross
Sine Die | To require the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the United States Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund to support the capacity of the International Monetary Fund to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism. (Sec. 1) Thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5385 | Engross
Sine Die | Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Technical Correction Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to make technical corrections regarding quadrennial homeland security reviews. The bill includes among the entities with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5322 | Engross
Sine Die | U.S. Territories Investor Protection Act of 2016 This bill amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to repeal the exemption from its coverage of investment companies created under the laws of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or any other U.S. posses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB5056 | Engross
Sine Die | Airport Perimeter and Access Control Security Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration to update: the Transportation Sector Security Rick Assessment for the aviation sector, the Comprehensive Risk Assessment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB4785 | Engross
Sine Die | DHS SAVE Act DHS Stop Asset and Vehicle Excess Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to make the Under Secretary for Management of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for overseeing and managing vehicle fle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4404 | Engross
Sine Die | Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel Exercise Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop and conduct an exercise related to the terrorist and foreign fighter threat in order to enhance domestic prepar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB3361 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Homeland Security Insider Threat and Mitigation Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) to direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish an Insider Threat Program, which shall: (1) p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 553. |
| HB3178 | Engross
Sine Die | Strengthening Transparency in Higher Education Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends title I (General Provisions) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify consumer information disclosure requirements related to college costs and student characteristics....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB3179 | Engross
Sine Die | Empowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify loan counseling requirements for an institution of higher education (IHE) that partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB1557 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 to: (1) expand disclosure and enforcement requirements relating to findings of acts of disc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 556. |
| SCR39 | Engross
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution honoring the members of the United States Air Force who were casualties of the June 25, 1996, terrorist bombing of the United States Sector Khobar Towers military housing complex on Dhahran Air Base. Recognizes the service and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-11
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB1270 | Engross
Sine Die | Restoring Access to Medication and Improving Health Savings Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that limit payments for medications from health savin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-11
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 550. |
| SB2340 | Engross
Sine Die | MEGABYTE Act of 2016 Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue a directive to require the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-08
Held at the desk. |
| SCR38 | Engross
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution reaffirming the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances as cornerstones of United States-Taiwan relations. Affirms that the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances are both cornerstones of U.S.-Taiwan relations. Urges ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-07
Held at the desk. |
| HB4369 | Engross
Sine Die | To authorize the use of passenger facility charges at an airport previously associated with the airport at which the charges are collected. (Sec. 1) This bill permits the Department of Transportation to authorize the use of a passenger facility charg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-07
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB4361 | Engross
Sine Die | Government Reform and Improvement Act of 2016 TITLE I--FEDERAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS SAFEGUARDS (Sec. 101) This title exempts from federal employee labor-management relations requirements the actions of an executive agency that are necessary to restric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-07
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB3079 | Engross
Sine Die | To take certain Federal land located in Tuolumne County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) All U.S. interests in approximately 80 acres of specified U.S. Forest Service lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-07
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 549. |
| HB5244 | Engross
Sine Die | Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial Act (Sec. 3) This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial at the Dam site in Los Angeles County, California, to honor the victims ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-06
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB5210 | Engross
Sine Die | PADME Act Patient Access to Durable Medical Equipment Act of 2016 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a bid ceiling for durable medical equipment (such as wheelchairs) under Medicare's competitive acquisiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB4855 | Engross
Sine Die | Fix Crowdfunding Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Securities Act of 1933 to allow a crowdfunding issuer to sell shares through a crowdfunding vehicle. (Crowdfunding is a method of capital formation in which groups of people pool money, typically com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-06
Received in the Senate. |
| HB4854 | Engross
Sine Die | Supporting America's Innovators Act of 2016 This bill amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to exempt from its coverage any issuer whose outstanding securities with respect to a qualifying venture capital fund (other than short-term paper) are be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-06
Received in the Senate. |
| HB4582 | Engross
Sine Die | SOS Act Save Our Salmon Act (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Central Valley Project Improvement Act to exclude striped bass from the project to require reasonable efforts to ensure all anadromous fish naturally produce at twice the average levels in Cen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-06
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4538 | Engross
Sine Die | Senior Safe Act of 2016 This bill provides immunity from liability of: (1) a supervisor, compliance officer (including a Bank Secrecy Act Officer), or registered representative for a covered financial institution who has received training in the iden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-06
Received in the Senate. |
| HB3844 | Engross
Sine Die | Bureau of Land Management Foundation Act (Sec. 3) This bill establishes the Bureau of Land Management Foundation as a charitable, nonprofit organization to encourage, accept, obtain, administer, and use private gifts of money, devises, and bequests o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-06
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
