Subject Department of Defense | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | SB470 | Requires the Purple Heart to be placed in precedence above the Distinguished Warfare Medal. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | HB1014 | Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to include military technicians (dual status) in any military personnel accounts for which the President has exempted from sequestration or provided for ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | HB705 | Fort Hood Victims and Families Benefits Protection Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) any member of the Armed Forces who was killed or wounded in the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, and the family members of those victim... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | HB949 | Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013 - Revises Buy American requirements with respect to federal-aid highways, capital investment grants to support intercity passenger rail service (rail grants), and Amtrak, particularly the handling of waiver request... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | SB465 | Cancels the sequestration of budgetary resources for FY2013 ordered on March 1, 2013, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Balanced Budget Act). Requires the budget sequester for an account in the security and n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | SB444 | Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 - Appropriates funds for FY2013 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance (O&M), including for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Fo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-04 |
| US | SB400 | Corps of Engineers Recreation Improvement Act - Amends the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to include the Corps of Engineers as a federal land management agency. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | SB16 | Requires the President, by March 15, 2013, to submit to Congress a qualifying sequester replacement plan proposing to cancel permanently $85.333 billion of budgetary resources available for FY2013 from any discretionary appropriations or direct spend... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S991) |
| US | SB407 | Reinvesting In Vital Economic Rivers and Waterways Act of 2013 or RIVER Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to promulgate regulations that, at a minimum, require certain delivery process criteria for qualif... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | SB428 | Arctic Deep Water Ports Enhancement Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into partnership agreements with certain developers to: (1) plan, survey, design, construct, maintain, or operate Arctic deepwater ports; (2) provide tech... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HB709 | Upper Mississippi Conservation and River Protection Act of 2013 or the Upper Mississippi CARP Act - Directs the Chief of Engineers to study the feasibility of: (1) temporarily closing the lock at the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam (located on M... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| US | HB857 | Protect Troops at War Act of 2013 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to eliminate for FY2013-FY2014 the reductions to discretionary appropriations or direct spending for the defense function of the Department of De... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| US | HB804 | Smarter Than Sequester Defense Spending Reduction Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to nullify the presidential sequestration order issued for the revised security category (discret... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-25 |
| US | HB810 | Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit to the congressional defense and appropriations committees a detailed outline of, and accounting under the discretionary spending limit for: (1) the efficiencies relating to Department of Defense (DOD) contr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-25 |
| US | HB773 | Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 to: (1) lower the $1.2 trillion total deficit reduction goal for each of FY2013-FY2021 to $600 billion, (2) ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-15 |
| US | SB365 | Upper Mississippi Conservation and River Protection Act of 2013 or the Upper Mississippi CARP Act - Directs the Chief of Engineers to study the feasibility of: (1) temporarily closing the lock at the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam (located on M... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | HB641 | National Guard State Partnership Program Enhancement Act - Codifies under federal law the National Guard State Partnership Program (defense and security partnerships between the National Guard and the military and security forces, and related disaste... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-13 |
| US | HB593 | Down Payment to Protect National Security Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) full sequestration must be averted, (2) balanced deficit reduction must include substantive reductions in mandatory spending, and (3) any plan to avert ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-08 |
| US | SB263 | Down Payment to Protect National Security Act of 2013 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine the number of full-time employees employed in each federal agency. Prohibits a federal agency head from hiring mor... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-07 |
| US | HB559 | Audit the Pentagon Act of 2013 - Requires, on March 2 of FY2014 and each subsequent fiscal year, a 5% reduction in the discretionary budget authority of a federal agency that is identified by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| US | HB55 | Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence, and Essential Law Enforcement Departments Act of 2013 or the SHIELD Act of 2013 - Requires, in the event that the U.S. public debt limit is reached, priority payment of the pay and allowances of: (1) mem... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 |
| US | SB171 | Military Pay Continuation Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during a government-wide shutdown, to transfer to the Secretary of Defense (DOD), and the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) in the case of the Coast Guard, amounts nec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-29 |
| US | HB152 | Division A: Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 - Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2013 to specified federal agencies and programs for expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Sandy. Tit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-29 Became Public Law No: 113-2. |
| US | SB83 | Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2013 - Declares that, if any regular appropriation bill for a fiscal year does not become law before the beginning of the fiscal year, or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations (continuing resolution... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-28 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 5. |
| US | HB399 | Levee Vegetation Review Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to undertake a comprehensive review of the Corps of Engineers policy guidelines on vegetation management for levees in order to determine whether current federal policy is approp... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-24 |
| 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 | HB342 | Guarantee Paychecks for America's Military Families Act - Prioritizes, in the event that the public debt of the U.S. government reaches the statutory limit, the following obligations over all other obligations: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to pa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-22 |
| US | HB314 | Inspector General Improvement Act of 2013 - Requires the inspectors general of the following federal agencies, in addition to the other duties and responsibilities specified in the Inspector General Act of 1978, to supervise, direct, and control audi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-18 |
| US | HR13 | Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order in the House to consider any legislation containing appropriations within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Military Constructi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-03 |
| US | HB124 | Redesignates: (1) the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps, and (2) the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. Makes similar redesignations with respect to the Department Under Secretary,... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-03 |
| US | HB149 | Prioritize Spending Act of 2013 - Requires amounts necessary for incurred federal obligations, in the event that the public debt reaches the statutory limit, to be made available to certain obligations, in prioritized order, before all other obligati... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-03 |
