Sponsored by Blunt, Roy - US Congress (Current)
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | SR75 | Condemns Iran for its state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights. Calls on Iran to release all prisoners held solely on account of their religion. Calls on the Presi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| US | SB484 | Lead Exposure Reduction Amendments Act of 2013 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to exclude from the definition of "abatement" any renovation, remodeling, or other activity: (1) the primary purpose of which is to repair, restore, or re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1589) |
| US | SB516 | Prostate Research, Outreach, Screening, Testing, Access, and Treatment Effectiveness Act of 2013 or PROSTATE Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish the Interagency Prostate Cancer Coordination and Education Task Force, wit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 |
| US | SB475 | Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act - Reauthorizes the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004 for FY2014-FY2018. Directs the Secretary of State to act through the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in awarding grants... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | SB463 | Forest Products Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include in the definition of "biobased product" forest products that meet biobased content requirements, notwithstanding the market share th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | SB462 | United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013 - Declares that Israel is a Major Strategic Partner of the United States. Amends the Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 to extend authority to: (1) make additions to foreign-based ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | SB454 | Family Self-Sufficiency Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise the purpose of the Family-Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program to include the use of both low-income housing assistance under Section 8 of such Act (as in current law) and... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | SB399 | American Job Protection Act - Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that: (1) impose fines on large employers (employers with more than 50 full-time employees) who fail to offer t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | SB424 | National Pediatric Research Network Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in carrying out the Pediatric Research Initiative, to act through the Director of the Eunice ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | SB429 | Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to issue orders applicable to manufacturers of concrete masonry products (concrete). Requires any such order to provide for the establishment... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | SB20 | Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2013 - Repeals the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Revives or restores the provisions of law amended by such Act as if it had not been enacted. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| US | SB17 | Energy Production and Project Delivery Act of 2013 - Considers that the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) has approved the Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2010-2015 as a final oil and gas leasing program under t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| US | SB379 | Decrease Spending Now Act - Rescinds $45 billion of unobligated balances of current discretionary appropriations. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) determine which appropriation accounts the rescission shall a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 |
| US | SB351 | Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2013 - Repeals sections of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (PPACA) (and restores provisions of law amended by such sections) related to the establishment of an Independent Payment Advisory Boar... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | SB367 | Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the caps on Medicare outpatient rehabilitation physical therapy services and speech-language pathology services. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | SB346 | Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to provide transportation on scheduled and unscheduled military flights within the United States and on scheduled overseas flights on a space-available basis for veterans with a service-connected, permanent disa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | SB336 | Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 - Authorizes each member state under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002) to require all sell... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | SB369 | Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit transporting a minor child across a state line to obtain an abortion (deems such transporting to be a de facto abridgment of the right of a parent under any law... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | SB370 | Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a geography education grant program under title II (Teacher Quality Enhancement). Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to a national nonpro... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | SB310 | Startup Act 3.0 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to adjust to conditional permanent resident status up to 50,000 aliens who have earned a master's or doctorate degree in a science, tec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-13 |
| US | SB313 | Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2013 or the ABLE Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt ABLE accounts to assist an individual with a disability in building an account to pay for qualified disability expenses.... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-13 |
| US | SJR7 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a two-thirds roll call vo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-13 |
| US | SB273 | Amends the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) from the the meaning of a fiduciary subject to ERISA. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-11 |
| US | SB264 | Excellence in Mental Health Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to set forth criteria for the certification of federally-qualified community behavioral health centers. Requires the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-07 |
| US | SB232 | Medical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on medical device manufacturers and importers. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-07 |
| US | SB218 | Harbor Maintenance Act of 2013 - Requires the total budget resources for expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for harbor maintenance programs to equal the level of receipts plus interest credited to such Fund for that fiscal year. Limi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-04 |
| US | SB193 | Startup Innovation Credit Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a qualified small business, other than a tax-exempt organization, to use a portion of its tax credit for increasing research expenditures as an offset against its payro... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 |
| US | SB190 | Restoring the Constitutional Balance of Power Act of 2013 - Prohibits the use of federal funds by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to undertake or enforce activities commencing on or after January 4, 2012, that require authorization by a quo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 |
| US | SB191 | Regulatory Responsibility for our Economy Act of 2013 - Sets forth general requirements for the federal regulatory system, including the protection of public health, welfare, safety, and the environment, the promotion of predictability in the regulat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 |
| US | SB207 | Prohibits the U.S. government from allowing the sale, lease, transfer, retransfer, or delivery of F-16 aircraft, M1 tanks, or certain other defense articles or services to Egypt until the President certifies to Congress that Egypt has agreed to: (1) ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 |
| US | SB192 | Expedited LNG for American Allies Act of 2013 - Amends the Natural Gas Act to deem consistent with the public interest an expedited application and approval process without modification or delay for the exportation of natural gas to a foreign country... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 |
| US | SB177 | ObamaCare Repeal Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of their enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-30 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 9. |
| US | SB188 | Advice and Consent Restoration Act - Prohibits a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member from receiving a salary unless that member has been appointed: (1) by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or (2) by the President to fill a vacan... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-30 |
| US | SB180 | NLRB Freeze Act of 2013 - Declares that determinations made by National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) members constituting a quorum shall be void until a final judgment is entered in all cases pending before a federal court challenging the constitutio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-30 |
| US | SB183 | Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to sunset on October 1, 2013, the application of budget neutrality on a national basis in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor.... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-30 |
| US | SB186 | Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to commemorate the lives of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-30 |
| US | SB175 | Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide that no permit shall be required for: (1) the use of a pesticide that is registered or otherwise authorized for use under such Act; (2) the use of a biological control organism... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-29 |
| US | SB169 | Immigration Innovation Act of 2013 or the I-Squared Act of 2013 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish an annual cap on H-1B visas (specialty occupations) at between 115,000 and 300,000 visas depending upon market conditions and ex... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-29 |
| US | SCR4 | Express the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to American families and businesses and is not in the interest of the United States. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 |
| US | SB162 | Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Amends the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004 to: (1) expand the assistance provided under such Act, and (2) reauthorize appropriations for FY2015-FY2019. Defines a &q... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 |
| US | SB141 | Makes livestock indemnity payments (at 65% of an animal's market value) through FY2013 to eligible producers on farms that have incurred excess livestock death losses due to: (1) attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 |
| US | SB153 | Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), to awa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 |
| US | SB135 | Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Service (HHS) from providing any federal family planning assistance to an entity unless the entity certifies that, during t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 |
| US | SB138 | Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2013 - Imposes criminal penalties on anyone who knowingly or knowingly attempts to: (1) perform an abortion knowing that the abortion is sought based on the sex or gender of the child, (2) use force or the t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 |
| US | SB46 | Ensuring the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America's Soldiers and Seniors Act - Requires the following to take equal priority over all other federally incurred obligations in the event that the public debt reaches the stat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-22 |
| US | SB40 | American Liberty Restoration Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that require individuals to maintain minimum essential health care coverage. Applies the Internal Revenue Code as if such provisions had never bee... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-22 |
