Sponsored by Vitter, David - US Congress (Current)
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | SB51 | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Reauthorizes and revises the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to appoint 28 directors (currently, 23) that are knowledg... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-22 |
| 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 | SB43 | Dollar-for-Dollar Deficit Reduction Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in the event of a near breach of the current $14.294 trillion public debt limit, to issue a debt limit warning to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-22 |
| US | SB44 | Medical Care Access Protection Act of 2013 or MCAP Act - Prescribes requirements for lawsuits for health care liability claims related to the provision of health care services. Sets a statute of limitations of three years after the date of manifestat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-22 |
| US | SB65 | Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB86 | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) payment of home school expenses from Coverdell education savings accounts, and (2) an annual inflation adjustment after 2012 to the contribution limit amount for such accounts. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB87 | Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all taxpayers, including taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions, a tax deduction for expenses relating to the home schooling of their childr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB89 | Migratory Bird Treaty Amendment Act of 2013 - Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to allow an agricultural producer, or a hunter with the producer's permission, to take migratory game birds by the aid of baiting, if: (1) the manipulation occurs on t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB91 | Child Tax Credit Integrity Preservation Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the identification requirements for the child tax credit to require taxpayers to provide valid identification numbers on their tax returns in addition to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB64 | Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any authorized committee of a candidate or any other political committee established, maintained, or controlled by a candidate or person who holds a federal office from employing the spouse... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB66 | Corps of Engineers Project Delivery Flexibility Act of 2013 - Directs the Chief of Engineers to establish a pilot program to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and project delivery efficiency of non-federal sponsors as the lead project delivery team for... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB88 | 21st Century Charter School Act - Amends the Charter School program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Makes public and private nonprofit entities eligible for program grants. (Currently, state educational entities are eligible f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB92 | Declares that, in the event the debt of the federal government reaches the statutory limit, the authority of the Department of the Treasury to pay with legal tender the principal and interest on debt held by the public, and the authority of the Commi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB94 | Terminates the program for redesign and issuance of circulating $1 coins honoring each of the Presidents of the United States (Presidential $1 Coin Program). [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB104 | National Monuments Act of 2011- Requires the President to obtain congressional approval of proposed national monuments situated upon land owned or controlled by the federal government and certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB105 | Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO), in coordination with the National Academy of Engineering, to conduct and submit to Congress a full audit of hurricane protection funding and cost estimates associated with post-Katrina hurricane pro... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB90 | Notch Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or aft... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB93 | Investment Savings Access After Catastrophes Act of 2013 - Defines "Hurricane Isaac disaster area" for purposes of this Act as any parish or county of Louisiana or Mississippi in an area in which a major disaster has been declared before September 10... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB95 | Expresses the sense of Congress that now that evidence is available that nullifies the most controversial aspects of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report) the United Nations (U.N.) should formally retract... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB96 | Rigs to Reefs Habitat Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to assess each offshore oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico that is no longer useful for operations, and has become critical for a marine fisheries habitat, to: (1) d... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB107 | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the head of any other federal agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions until the Secretary of Commerce certifies that China, India, and Russia have initiated measures ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB108 | IDEA Full Funding Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to reauthorize and make appropriations for the grant program to assist states and outlying areas to provide special education and related services to children with ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SJR2 | Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to three terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SJR3 | Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to three terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SJR4 | Constitutional Amendment - States that a person born in the United States shall not be a U.S. citizen unless: (1) at the time of the person's birth, one parent of the person is a U.S. citizen, an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB97 | Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to direct agency heads not to impose civil fines for first-time paperwork violations by small business concerns unless there is potential for serious harm to the public ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB98 | Local Disaster Contracting Fairness Act of 2013 - Prohibits the head of an executive agency from entering into an agreement for debris removal or demolition services in connection with natural disaster reconstruction efforts unless the agreement spec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB99 | Natural Disaster Fairness in Contracting Act of 2013 - Requires agencies, in entering into a contract to procure property or services in connection with natural disaster reconstruction efforts, to use specified competitive procedures. Allows agencies... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB100 | Terminating the Expansion of Too-Big-To-Fail Act of 2013 - Amends the Financial Stability Act of 2010, title I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and the Federal Reserve A... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SR11 | Recognizes that prayer before school board meetings is a protected act and expresses support for such prayer. [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB101 | Prohibits the use of federal funds to purchase or guarantee obligations of, issue lines of credit to, or provide direct or indirect grants-and-aid to any state, municipal, local, or county government which, on or after January 26, 2011, has defaulted... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB102 | Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) annually estimate the number of illegal border crossings along the southern U.S. land border, and (2) reduce financial assistance to the government of Mexico by a total of $1,000 for each illegal border crossing... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB106 | Public Access to Historical Records Act - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to establish an official dataset on the historical temperature record. Requires NASA to use the raw data related to tempe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB109 | Government Neutrality in Contracting Act - Directs the head of any federal agency that awards or obligates funds for any construction contract, or that awards grants, provides financial assistance, or enters into cooperative agreements for constructi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB110 | Social Security Lock-Box Act of 2013 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a point of order against consideration of any: (1) budget resolution that sets forth totals for any fiscal year with respect to the Social Security Trust Fu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB111 | Safety for Our Schoolchildren Act of 2013 - Requires states and local educational agencies (LEAs): (1) to obtain an FBI background check on individuals prior to offering them employment as school employees; and (2) if the check identifies them as sex... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SR10 | Expresses the sense of the Senate that all further assistance provided by the United States to Antigua and Barbuda should be suspended until Antigua and Barbuda provide complete redress of specified issues regarding an investigation of the Stanford F... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SR8 | Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: (1) not relinquish its long utilized authority vested in the U.S. Constitution to borrow money on the credit of the United States by refusing to debate, amend, and vote on a bill to address the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 |
| US | SB133 | Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services (PATIENTS) Act of 2013 or PATIENTS Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using data obtained from comparative effectivene... [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 | SB136 | Ethical Stem Cell Research Tax Credit Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 30% of qualified stem cell research expenses paid or incurred in a taxable year. Defines "qualified stem cell research expenses" ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 |
| US | SB137 | Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to codify the prohibition against any action by the federal government and any state or local government receiving federal financial assistance to subject a health profess... [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 | SB139 | Pregnant Women Health and Safety Act - Subjects to fines and/or imprisonment any physician who knowingly performs an abortion but fails to comply with this Act. Requires a physician who performs an abortion to: (1) have admitting privileges at a loca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 |
| US | SB154 | Preventing the Offering of Elective Coverage of Taxpayer-Funded-Abortion Act of 2013 or PROTECT Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in entering into contract... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 |
| US | SB124 | No Budget, No Pay Act - Prohibits the payment of any pay to any Member of Congress (excluding the Vice President): (1) if both houses of Congress have not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year before October 1 of that fisca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 6. |
| 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 | SB163 | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the head of any other federal agency from implementing or enforcing any regulations, proposals, or actions establishing any carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas emissions reducti... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 |
| US | SB167 | Strategic Petroleum Supplies Act - Prohibits the Administration from authorizing sales of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) until the date all requisite permits under Executive Order 13337 for the Keystone XL pipeline proj... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-29 |
| 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 |
