US Congress Senate Bill 527 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on February 27 2015 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-02-27 - Held at the desk.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March during March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Sec. 4) The medals struck pursuant to this Act are national medals.

A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-AL]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Richard Shelby [R-AL]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Joe Donnelly [D-IN]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]
Sen. Johnny Isakson [R-GA]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Bob Corker [R-TN]	Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]
Sen. Ben Sasse [R-NE]	Sen. Ron Johnson [R-WI]	Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]	Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]
Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Ted Cruz [R-TX]	Sen. James Risch [R-ID]	Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]
Sen. Kelly Ayotte [R-NH]	Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]	Sen. Tim Scott [R-SC]	Sen. Daniel Coats [R-IN]
Sen. David Perdue [R-GA]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]	Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]
Sen. John Hoeven [R-ND]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Harry Reid [D-NV]	Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]	Sen. John Thune [R-SD]
Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-KY]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]
Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Mike Rounds [R-SD]
Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Deb Fischer [R-NE]	Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-27	House	Held at the desk.
2015-02-27	House	Received in the House.
2015-02-27	Senate	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2015-02-26	Senate	Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1137-1138; text as passed Senate: CR S1137)
2015-02-24	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 24.
2015-02-24	Senate	Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Reported by Senator Shelby without amendment. Without written report.
2015-02-24	Senate	Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
2015-02-12	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

HB431 (Related) 2015-03-07 - Became Public Law No: 114-5. (TXT | PDF)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/527/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s527/BILLS-114s527es.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s527/BILLS-114s527rs.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s527/BILLS-114s527is.pdf