| HB5817 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to deem any member of the Armed Forces who died between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2005, to have died on January 1, 2006, for purposes of the eligibility of such member's su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5813 | Intro
Sine Die | U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Improvement Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Maritime Administration to: accept a gift of money from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation, Inc. in order to renovate Melvill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Armed Services Committee |
| HB5824 | Intro
Sine Die | American Anti-Torture Act of 2014 - Amends the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to prohibit any person in the custody or control of the United States (under current law, persons under the custody or control of the Department of Defense [DOD] or under d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB5811 | Intro
Sine Die | Volunteer Emergency Responders Tax Deduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat firefighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, civil air patrol, and emergency rescue services rendered by a bona fide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5768 | Intro
Sine Die | Separation of Powers Act of 2014 - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to any federal department or agency to: parole an alien into the United States or grant deferred action on a final order of removal for any reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB5761 | Intro
Sine Die | Defense of Legal Workers Act of 2014 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) exclude from the definition of "unauthorized alien," with respect to the unlawful employment of aliens, any alien otherwise admitted to and lawfully p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB5746 | Intro
Sine Die | Keeping America Safe from Ebola Act of 2014 - Defines "covered alien" as an alien: (1) who is a national or a resident of a country designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as one with widespread transmission of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB5735 | Intro
Sine Die | Grant Residency for Additional Doctors Act of 2014 or the GRAD Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of State to designate a Department of State officer or employee whose sole responsibility during the months of March, April, May, June, and any other p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB5719 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2014 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because the individual has been convicted of a non-violent criminal offense, unless, at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB5711 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the federal criminal code to remove the requirement that a hate crime involve conduct in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB5709 | Intro
Sine Die | Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act of 2014 or the SISA Act - Amends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, the Iran ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB5695 | Intro
Sine Die | Treason and Passport Revocation Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to include an organization that the Secretary of State has designated as a foreign terrorist organization as an enemy of the United States for purposes of the crime of tre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB4320 | Intro
Sine Die | Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to require that no investigative hearing take place until at least 14 days after the filing of an election pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 491. |
| HB5807 | Intro
Sine Die | Support Making Assessments Reliable and Timely Act or the SMART Act - Amends subpart 1 (Accountability) of part A of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise the program allotting grants to states to develop and admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB5804 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation United Assistance Tax Exclusion Act of 2014 - Provides for a tax exclusion of compensation paid to a member of the Armed Forces serving in Operation United Assistance in the Ebola virus disease outbreak area (i.e. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5683 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring Access to Justice for Claims Against the United States Act - Amends the federal judicial code with respect to the jurisdiction of federal courts over civil actions pending in, or on appeal from, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (USCFC) when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 488. |
| HB4489 | Intro
Sine Die | World War I Memorial Act of 2014 - Designates the Liberty Memorial of Kansas City at America's National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Museum and Memorial. Redesignates Pershing Park in the District of Columb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 486. |
| HB4402 | Intro
Sine Die | Guam Military Training and Readiness Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretaries of the Navy and the Interior to enter into an agreement providing for the establishment and operation of a surface danger zone that overlays the Ritidian Unit of the Guam N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 487. |
| HB4309 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Sikes Act (conservation programs on federal lands) to allow funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) that are obligated to cooperative agreements with states, local governments, Indian tribes, nongovernmental organizations, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 485. |
| HB5745 | Intro
Sine Die | Commends the veterans of the Korean Constabulary and thanks them for their support during the difficult times leading to the establishment of South Korea. (The Korean Constabulary undertook internal security tasks on behalf of the U.S. military gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-05
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB5792 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to formulate a special rule for determining normal retirement age for certain existing defined benefit plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5799 | Intro
Sine Die | Realign and Eliminate Duplicative Unnecessary Costly Excess in Government Act of 2014 or the REDUCE Government Act - Establishes the Federal Realignment and Closure Commission, which shall: (1) establish a systematic method for assessing the effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB5793 | Intro
Sine Die | Cyber Supply Chain Management and Transparency Act of 2014 - Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidelines for agencies that contract to acquire software, firmware, or products containing a third party or open source binary c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5802 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to revise requirements permitting multiemployer plans to adopt alternative rules for computing the payment of an employer's withdrawal liability to include a plan in critical status whose pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB5798 | Intro
Sine Die | Stability for Service Members Act - Amends the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 to extend through calendar year 2015 the one-year period after a service member's military service during which: (1) a court m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5797 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Health Emergency Preparedness Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Budget Committee |
| HB5795 | Intro
Sine Die | International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Authorization Act of 2014 - Urges the President to make every effort, in conjunction with the government of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the international community to establish an Internatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB3099 | Intro
Sine Die | Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Conservation Act of 2013 - Directs the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission to: (1) prepare and adopt a data collection strategy for the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery, including interstate collaboration measures and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
| HB5786 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Financial Institutions Regulatory Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), with respect to minimum standards for residential mortgage loans and the presumption of ability to repay, to treat as a "qualified mortage"...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB5784 | Intro
Sine Die | GI Bill STEM Extension Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay up to nine months of additional Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to a veteran who has used all of the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to which he or she wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5788 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the Junction City Community-Based Outpatient Clinic located at 715 Southwind Drive, Junction City, Kansas, as the "Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz Community-Based Outpatient Clinic."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5787 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments received by a student under a comprehensive work-learning-service program operated by a work college.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5785 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of indebtedness on a principal residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB4971 | Intro
Sine Die | Ask Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with an experienced non-government entity to conduct an annual survey, over a five-year period, of a statistically significant sample of veterans who reside in the geograph...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 484. |
| HB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2013 - Authorizes the presiding judge of a U.S. appellate court (including the Supreme Court) or U.S. district court to permit the photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting, or televising to the public of cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
| HB5779 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax deduction for the qualified expenses, up to $10,000 in a taxable year, of attending a private school. Includes within the definition of "qualified expenses" expenses for tuition, fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-02
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5770 | Intro
Sine Die | Disaster Assistance Recoupment Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends the Disaster Assistance Recoupment Fairness Act of 2011 to make the authority of the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to waive certain debts relating to disas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-02
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB5756 | Intro
Sine Die | Heller Public Firearms Range Act of 2014 - Amends the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to include the District of Columbia in the apportionment to states and U.S. territories and possessions of revenues from taxes imposed on pistols, revolv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-02
To House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs |
| HB5712 | Intro
Sine Die | DHS Private Sector Office Engagement Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-02
To House Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency |
| HB5773 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to extend through 2015 the automatic extensions of amortization periods for multiemployer defined benefit plans. Amends the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5778 | Intro
Sine Die | Boko Haram Disarmament and Northeast Nigeria Recovery Act of 2014 - Directs the President to develop and submit to Congress a regional strategy to guide U.S. support for multilateral efforts to: (1) eliminate the threat to civilians and regional stab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5775 | Intro
Sine Die | Powering American Jobs Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015: (1) the tax credit for nonbusiness energy efficient improvements; (2) excise tax credits and payments for alternative fuels, biodiesel and renewable diesel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5774 | Intro
Sine Die | No Social Security Numbers and Benefits for Illegal Aliens Act of 2014 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from assigning a Social Security...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5776 | Intro
Sine Die | Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to annual review of low-income families' income for eligibility requirements for certain federal assisted housing programs. Prohibits, after the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB5777 | Intro
Sine Die | Cryptocurrency Protocol Protection and Moratorium Act or the CryptPMA - Prohibits, for a five-year moratorium period beginning June 1, 2015, federal, state, and local governments from imposing statutory restrictions or regulations specifically identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5744 | Intro
Sine Die | State Wide Interoperable Communications Enhancement Act or the SWIC Enhancement Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require a state to include in its application for State Homeland Security Grant Program funding a certification: (1) tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
To House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications |
| HB5449 | Intro
Sine Die | Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2014 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2015-FY2018 to the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) for: the Northeast Corridor Improvement Fund account, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 469. |
| HB5049 | Intro
Sine Die | Blackfoot River Land Exchange Act of 2014 - (Sec. 4) Extinguishes all claims and all right, title, and interest in specified Indian and non-Indian land as part of the settlement of disputes within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation of the Shoshone-Bann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 479. |
| HB3227 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the boundaries of the Huntington Beach Unit SC-03 in the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System in South Carolina.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 477. |
| HB3226 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the boundaries of the Long Pond Unit SC-01 in the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System in South Carolina.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-01
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 476. |
