| HB5614 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Anti-Doping Agency Reauthorization Act - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to: (1) authorize appropriations for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for FY2014-FY2020, (2) require that the Agency be re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HR733 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the designation of September 2014 as Clinical Research Innovation Month. Honors and recognizes the contributions of Clinical Research Organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5505 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Air, Strong Economies Act - Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from lowering its national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) until at least 85% of countries that are in nonattainment areas (countries that are exceeding the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HB5507 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing Disparities Using Care Models and Education Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to contract with the Institute of Medicine to study: (1) health disparities; (2) existing programs and policies intended to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5537 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Comptroller General (GAO) to study and report on the interoperability of computer systems used by hospitals to store and access electronic health records. Requires the study to explore the ability of hospital computer systems to allow mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5654 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle Safety Improvement Act of 2014 - Revises and expands requirements relating to public disclosure by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of: (1) defects in motor vehicles or equipment, whether or not such defects are safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade |
| HB5556 | Intro
Sine Die | Electronic Health Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit any patient encounter of an eligible professional occurring at an ambulatory surgical center from being treated as such an encounter in dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5633 | Intro
Sine Die | In-Home Caregiver Assessment Resources and Education Act or the In-Home CARE Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Administration for Community Living to award grants to carry out home visiting programs for unpaid caregivers. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5575 | Intro
Sine Die | Peaceful Learning Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to study railway noise in the United States. Requires the Secretary, by regulation, to: establish a singl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HR731 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the designation of September 15-September 21, 2014, as Balance Awareness Week, and recognizes the importance of raising public awareness about vestibular (inner ear balance) disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5635 | Intro
Sine Die | Disclosing Aid Spent to Ensure Relief Act or the DISASTER Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to submit annually to Congress a report on all disaster-related assistance provided by the federal government. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB5591 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation Connections to Opportunity Act of 2014 - Requires the metropolitan transportation planning process to offer interested parties a reasonable opportunity to participate in the development and consideration of transportation scenarios in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB5644 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare CGM Access Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare coverage of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices furnished to a CGM qualified individual. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HR740 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the designation of National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Declares that steps should be taken to: (1) raise awareness of prostate cancer screening and treatment; (2) support research to improve screening and treatment of pros...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5609 | Intro
Sine Die | Vessel Incidental Discharge Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation |
| HB5557 | Intro
Sine Die | Streamlining Verification for Americans Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to allow large employers to prospectively report information regarding health care coverage available to employees eligible for premium subsidies on a health care ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5657 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Access for Safe and Timely Generics Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5626 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Property Low Hanging Fruit Act - Authorizes the head of each executive department to convey real and related property under the department's ownership and control and retain the net proceeds in an account within the Treasury. Makes such proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB5558 | Intro
Sine Die | ACO Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the shared savings program under which groups of service providers and suppliers meeting specified criteria may work together to manage and coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HR745 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that a Contract with America should include a roadmap to restore American competitiveness by: simplifying the corporate tax structure with lower statutory rates and no loopholes; taxing overseas ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-19
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HB5655 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating American Prosperity through Preservation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to tax credits for building rehabilitation expenditures, to: (1) allow an increased 30% credit for projects involving $7.5 million or less in rehab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR739 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the goals and ideals of the International Day of Non-Violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5641 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to treat as a campaign contribution any payment made by any person (other than a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a political committee of a political party) for a coordinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Administration Committee |
| HB5628 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act - Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidelines that prohibit the access of a pornographic or other explicit website from a federal computer, except any federal compute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5649 | Intro
Sine Die | United Nations Human Rights Council Accountability Act - Provides that until the Secretary of State makes a specified certification to Congress: (1) the Secretary shall withhold from a U.S. contribution to a regular budget of the United Nations (U.N....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5593 | Intro
Sine Die | Security Clearance Enhancement Act of 2014 - Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to expand the responsibilities of the executive agency selected to conduct security clearance investigations of U.S. government employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HCR116 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates sailors of the U.S. Submarine Force upon the completion of 4,000 ballistic missile submarine deterrent patrols. Honors and thanks the crews and their families for their dedication and sacrifice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Armed Services Committee |
| HB5601 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreclosure Restitution Act of 2014 - Appropriates specified funds from any amounts received by the Treasury as a civil monetary penalty from the recent settlement agreement between the United States, together with specified individual states, and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HR744 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Republic of Argentina has failed to meet its membership responsibilities in the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G20). Calls upon the President and the Secreta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5077 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal Jobs Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 449. |
| HB5599 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Loan Simplification Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) amend regulations and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to authorize the SBA and partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Small Business Committee |
| HR727 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.B. 2) to remove Federal Government obstacles to the production of more domestic energy; to ensure transport of that energy reliably to businesses, consumers, and other end users; to lower the cost ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB5616 | Intro
Sine Die | Urban Agriculture Production Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB5668 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreign Assistance Accountability Act of 2014 - Directs the President to suspend the provision of U.S. foreign assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Authorizes the President to reinstate such assistance if the PA has stopped: (1) providing fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5600 | Intro
Sine Die | Franchise Financing Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make financial assistance available to franchisees under the Act or the Small Business Investment Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Small Business Committee |
| HB5130 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Consumers from Unreasonable Credit Rates Act of 2014 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a creditor from extending credit to a consumer under an open end consumer credit plan (credit card) for which the fee and interest rate exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| HB5615 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax credit for social security taxes paid for employee cash tips to employers of cosmetologists. Requires employers of cosmetologists to repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5647 | Intro
Sine Die | UNRWA Anti-Terrorism Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to withhold U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) or to any successor or related entity, or to the regular...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5579 | Intro
Sine Die | Leveraging and Energizing America's Apprenticeship Programs Act or the LEAP Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business-related tax credit of $1,500 for hiring an apprenticeship employee who has not attained age 25 at the clo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5660 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to allow the use of contributions or donations only for the six years following the most recent federal election for a six-year office (e.g. the Senate) in which an individual was a candidate for the o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Administration Committee |
| HB5622 | Intro
Sine Die | Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) 100% expensing in a current taxable year of the cost of automated fire sprinkler system retrofit property, as defined by this Act; and (2) accelerated depreciation (i.e., a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5630 | Intro
Sine Die | Inspector General Vacancy Act of 2014 - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to provide that if the President does not nominate an Inspector General within 180 days after a vacancy occurs in that position, the individual serving as interim Inspec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5574 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes the Army Chemical Corps and transfers its functions to the Army Ordnance Corps. Directs the Secretary of the Army to reassign to the Ordnance Corps all members and officers of the Army who were assigned to the Chemical Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Armed Services Committee |
| HR735 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that all U.S. representatives to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) should oppose certain proposed IAIS procedures and make all appropriate efforts to ensure that proper t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5581 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreign Investment and Economic Security Act of 2014 - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to provide for: (1) national security reviews of transactions involving the construction of a new facility in the United States by any foreign person (cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB5584 | Intro
Sine Die | Women's Small Business Ownership Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Office of Women's Business Ownership within the Small Business Administration (SBA) to address issues concerning specified disciplines required for starting, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Small Business Committee |
| HB5531 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit any subsection (d) hospital located in an area which after September 30, 2014, is reclassified from a rural to an urban area from being required to waive the application of a wage i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR737 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that legislation regarding Energy Savings Performance Contracts and Utility Energy Service Contracts or that may lead to their use by the federal government should receive congressional scoring trea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Budget Committee |
| HB5648 | Intro
Sine Die | United States-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act of 2014 - Expresses the sense of Congress that expeditious consideration of certifications of letters of offer to sell defense articles, defense services, design and construction services, and major defens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HR743 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the designation of National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
