| HB6461 | Intro
Sine Die | Bring Enhanced Liability in Transportation for Students Act This bill authorizes the Department of Transportation (DOT) to award grants to states to develop a school bus seat belt demonstration program to purchase type 1 school buses (weighing more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6462 | Intro
Sine Die | Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable Americans Act This bill amend title XI (General Provisions) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in approving Medicaid demonstration projects, to: prioritize projects tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6449 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Money Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6467 | Intro
Sine Die | Use It or Choose It Act of 2016 This bill allows an individual, when moving from one position (i.e., any form of compensated employment, including part-time employment and independent contracting) within the workforce to another, to elect to retain a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB6458 | Intro
Sine Die | Help our Neediest Families Act of 2016 This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to prohibit a state to which a TANF grant is made from using any part of such grant for drug testin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB6394 | Engross
Sine Die | Improving Broadband Access for Veterans Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to submit to Congress a report on promoting broadband Internet access service for veterans, in particular low-income veterans ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Received in the Senate. |
| SB3511 | Intro
Sine Die | Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB6466 | Intro
Sine Die | APP Act Advancing and Promoting Programming
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6456 | Intro
Sine Die | End the Backlog Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB6425 | Intro
Sine Die | Safeguard Aquaculture Farmers Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Federal Lands |
| HB6401 | Engross
Sine Die | Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act (Sec. 2) This bill: (1) requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to increase the supplemental education fee charged to a prospective employer for each CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Marian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6430 | Intro
Sine Die | Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Assessment Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Federal Lands |
| HJR106 | Intro
Sine Die | Approving the location of a memorial to commemorate and honor the members of the Armed Forces that served on active duty in support of Operation Desert Storm or Operation Desert Shield.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Federal Lands |
| HB6375 | Engross
Sine Die | Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Received in the Senate. |
| HR944 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for consideration of the bill (H.B. 5143) to provide greater transparency and congressional oversight of international insurance standards setting processes, and for other purposes; providing for proceedings during the period from December ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SR535 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the trafficking of illicit fentanyl into the United States from Mexico and China. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: the use of illicit fentanyl in the United States and the resulting ove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 707. |
| HB3381 | Engross
Sine Die | Childhood Cancer STAR Act Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research Act of 2016 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to permit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide support to collect the medical specimens ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Received in the Senate. |
| SR537 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing profound concern about the ongoing political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, urging the release of political prisoners, and calling for respect of constitutional and democratic processes. Expresses conc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 708. |
| HB5399 | Engross
Sine Die | Ethical Patient Care for Veterans Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that each VA physician is informed of the duty to report any covered activity committed by another physician that the physician...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Received in the Senate. |
| HB3764 | Intro
Sine Die | Tribal Recognition Act of 2016 This bill replaces the process for federal recognition of Indian tribes. Indian groups may only be recognized as an Indian tribe by Congress. Groups that are not federally recognized may submit a petition for federal re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 663. |
| HB756 | Engross
Sine Die | Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2015 This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Department of Energy's Office of Energy and Renewable Energy to establish a clearinghouse to disseminate information regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Received in the Senate. |
| HR943 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala National Park in the State of Hawaii, and expressing support for designation of August 1, 2016, as "Hawaii Volcanoes and Haleakala National Parks D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
To House Subcommittee on Federal Lands |
| HB6438 | Engross
Sine Die | To extend the waiver of limitations with respect to excluding from gross income amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals. (Sec. 1) This bill amends the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 to extend the waiver of limitations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-07
Received in the Senate. |
| HR828 | Intro
Sine Die | Impeaching John Andrew Koskinen, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, for high crimes and misdemeanors. Resolves that John Andrew Koskinen, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB6415 | Engross
Sine Die | To provide for the appointment of members of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to replace members whose terms expire during 2017, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) This bill provides that of the three members appointed to the Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Received in the Senate. |
| SB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 (Sec. 5) This bill allows civil claims or causes of action for the recovery of artwork or certain other property lost between January 1, 1933, and December 31, 1945, because of Nazi persecution to be co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
By Senator Grassley from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 114-394. |
| SB3097 | Intro
Sine Die | SelectUSA Authorization Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill establishes in the Department of Commerce a government-wide SelectUSA program to attract and retain domestic and foreign investment in the U.S. economy. SelectUSA shall: coordinate outreach and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 703. |
| SB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act of 2016 This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create a master point of contact directory for effective communications between public safety answering points and telecommunicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 702. |
| HR932 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to third-party charges on consumer telephone bills. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that protections against cramming should be improved and consumers should be emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB6427 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating Financial Prosperity for Businesses and Investors Act TITLE I--SMALL BUSINESS CAPITAL FORMATION ENHANCEMENT (Sec. 101) This bill amends the Small Business Investment Incentive Act of 1980 to require the Securities and Exchange Commission (SE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Received in the Senate. |
| HR945 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for the printing of a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress. Provides for the printing of a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR947 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing support for the designation of the third Sunday in October as Clergy Spouse Appreciation Day. Supports the designation of Clergy Spouse Appreciation Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB6443 | Intro
Sine Die | Heroin and Opioid Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To House Budget Committee |
| HB6439 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2016 This bill makes technical and clerical amendments to: the Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015; the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016; the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act; the Surface T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB3510 | Intro
Sine Die | Attracting and Retaining Entrepreneurs Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3507 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to extend the waiver of limitations with respect to excluding from gross income amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals. This bill amends the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 to extend the waiver of limitations o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB6444 | Intro
Sine Die | Perkins Loan Program Inflation Adjustment Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| SB3505 | Intro
Sine Die | Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR631 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution celebrating the history of the Detroit River with the 15-year commemoration of the International Underground Railroad Memorial Monument, comprised of the Gateway to Freedom Monument in Detroit, Michigan, and the Tower of Freedom Monument...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB3508 | Intro
Sine Die | Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB3506 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2016 This bill makes technical and clerical amendments to: the Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015; the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016; the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act; the Surface T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB6446 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Borrower HELP Act of 2016 Student Borrower Higher Education Lending Protection Act of 2016 This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to provide to student borrowers of private education loans: (1) loan payment deferments without interest accr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB3504 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3503 | Intro
Sine Die | EMPLEO Act Economic Mobility for Productive Livelihoods and Expanding Opportunity Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3509 | Intro
Sine Die | South China Sea and East China Sea Sanctions Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HCR174 | Engross
Sine Die | Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 34. Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 34 (21st Century Cures Act) to change the official...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB2508 | Intro
Sine Die | Youth Sports Concussion Act This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should review the National Academies' report on sports-related concussions and future rese...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 701. |
| HR939 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that access to digital communications tools and connectivity is necessary to prepare youth in the United States to compete in the 21st century economy. Expresses the sense of the House of Represent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-06
On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 1 (Roll no. 605). (text: CR H7200-7201) |
| HB6313 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing Certainty for Progenitors Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-05
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6306 | Intro
Sine Die | Mark Takai Filipino Veterans Family Unification Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-12-05
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
