| SB2140 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises requirements for experimental permits related to commercial space launch activities. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue an experimental permit for a particular reusable suborbital vehicle (RSV) for research and development to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 113-318. |
| SB2055 | Intro
Sine Die | Corps of Engineers Cooperative Joint Management Restoration Act - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to allow a non-federal public or private entity that has entered into a cooperative agreement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 652. |
| SB2022 | Intro
Sine Die | Forensic Science and Standards Act of 2014 - Establishes a national forensic science research program to improve, expand, and coordinate federal research in forensic sciences. Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 113-320. |
| SB1014 | Intro
Sine Die | Youth Sports Concussion Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should review the National Academies' report on sports-related concussions in youth, and future re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 113-310. |
| SB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2013 - (Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary of Commerce to issue orders applicable to manufacturers of concrete masonry products (concrete). (Sec. 5) Requires any such order to provide fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 113-319. |
| SB3005 | Intro
Sine Die | Progressive Consumption Tax Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3006 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use the Secretary's existing authority to furnish health care to veterans at non-VA facilities to provide health care at non-VA facilities to veterans who reside more than 40 miles driving distance fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB3000 | Intro
Sine Die | Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area Act of 2014 - Establishes the Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area in Utah to provide for the enhancement of recreational uses and the use of off-highway vehicles. Provides for the conveyance of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB3003 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Social Security Disability Act of 2014 - Amends title II (Old, Age and Survivors Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to revise the Disability Insurance program to declare any individual who is entitled to both ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2999 | Intro
Sine Die | Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3001 | Intro
Sine Die | Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014 - Entitles any federal employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 30% or more, during the 12-month period beginning on the first day of employment, to up to 104 hours of leave, wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB2998 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding School Choice Act - Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to allocate school improvement grant funds among their local educational agencies (LEAs) on the basis of the number of childr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3004 | Intro
Sine Die | Dormant Therapies Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3007 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring Enhanced Access to Primary Care Act - Extends through calendar 2016 the requirement that state plans under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act provide for payment of 100% of the payment rate for primary care services. Adds physic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3002 | Intro
Sine Die | Guarding Our Great Lakes Act - Requires the Chief of Engineers, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and each ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2822 | Engross
Sine Die | Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to study and report to Congress on matters relating to the interring of veterans' unclaimed remains in national cemeteries under the control of the Nati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| SB2828 | Engross
Sine Die | Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 - (Sec. 3) States that it is U.S. policy to assist the government of Ukraine in restoring its sovereignty and territorial integrity in order to deter the government of the Russian Federation from further destabiliz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| SB2785 | Engross
Sine Die | Safe and Secure Drinking Water Protection Act of 2014 - Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and publish within 180 days a health advisory including recommendations on: (1) the level of microcystins (toxins produced by freshw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| SB2244 | Engross
Sine Die | Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Title I: Extension of Terrorism Insurance Program - (Sec. 101) Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program through December 31, 2020, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill. |
| SB1784 | Intro
Sine Die | Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2013 - Names the Act of August 28, 1937, as the Oregon and California Land Grant Act. Requires the management of those parts of certain revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Roa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 646. |
| SB1535 | Engross
Sine Die | Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act - Amends the federal judicial code to include among the exceptions to U.S. jurisdictional immunity of foreign states any statutory or common law tort claim arising out of an act of extrajudicial killing, airc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| SB1463 | Intro
Sine Die | Captive Primate Safety Act - Amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to add nonhuman primates to the definition of "prohibited wildlife species" for purposes of the prohibition against the sale or purchase of such species in interstate or foreign com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 650. |
| SB2994 | Intro
Sine Die | Leveling the Playing Field Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the administration and enforcement of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders. Declares that neither the administering authority (the Secretary of Commerce,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2996 | Intro
Sine Die | PATH Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | Child and Dependent Care FSA Enhancement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $7,500 the amount of employer-provided dependent care assistance that an employee may exclude from gross income. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2993 | Intro
Sine Die | Students Before Profits Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to require the Secretary of Education to: (1) use corrected data and information to recalculate the cohort default rates for institutions of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2995 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Water Compliance and Affordability Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2992 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Justice Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to direct the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Homeland Security (DHS) to require the Secretaries of the military departments to modify the process for dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 644. |
| SB2873 | Intro
Sine Die | National Park System Donor Acknowledgment Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to authorize donor acknowledgments (a statement, logo, trademark, proper legal name, or other reasonable form of credit) at a a visitor center or adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 641. |
| SB2614 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, with respect to rollovers to a traditional or Roth individual retirement account (IRA) of payments to qualified airline employees in commercial airline carrier bankruptcy cases, to: (1) extend the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Held at the desk. |
| SB2602 | Intro
Sine Die | Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in the state of Washington. Designates the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust as the local coordinating entity for the Heritage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 640. |
| SB2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Klamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 2014 - (Sec. 3) Authorizes, ratifies, and confirms: (1) the Hydroelectric Settlement (Settlement), the Klamath River Basin Restoration Agreement for the Sustainability of Public and Trust R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639. |
| SB2104 | Intro
Sine Die | National Park Access Act - Requires the Director of the National Park Service to refund to each state all of the funds that it used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the period in October 2013 in which there ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 638. |
| SB2094 | Intro
Sine Die | Vessel Incidental Discharge Act - Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating: (1) to establish and implement enforceable uniform national standards for the regulation of discharges incidental to the normal operatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 113-304. |
| SB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act - Adjusts the boundary of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin to include the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light Addition at the end of the breakwater on Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin. Declares that Cong...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 637. |
| SB1971 | Intro
Sine Die | Nexus of Energy and Water for Sustainability Act of 2014 or NEWS Act of 2014 - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish either Committee on Energy-Water Nexus for Sustainability or the Subcommittee on Energy-W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 636. |
| SB1750 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Access to Public Land Guarantee Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to land under their respective jurisdictions, pursuant to a state or local government offer, to enter into an agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 635. |
| SB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine and Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy Act of 2013 - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to redefine "marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy" as energy (currently electrical energy) from: (1) waves, tides, and currents in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 634. |
| SB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | New Philadelphia, Illinois, Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the New Philadelphia archaeological site and the land surrounding it in Illinois. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 633. |
| SB1317 | Intro
Sine Die | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2014-FY2016 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Authorizes programs, activities, and reports respecting NASA, includin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 628. |
| SB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act of 2013 - Designates specified federal lands in San Juan National Forest in Colorado as: (1) the Hermosa Creek Watershed and Protection Area, and (2) the Hermosa Creek Special Management Area. Requires the Secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 632. |
| SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | Columbine-Hondo Wilderness Act - Designates specified land in Carson National Forest in New Mexico, which shall be known as the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Releases any federal land with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 631. |
| SB744 | Intro
Sine Die | Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - (Sec. 2) States that passage of this Act recognizes that the primary tenets of its success depend on securing U.S. sovereignty and establishing a coherent and just system for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. |
| SB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum Act - Establishes the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum. Requires the Commission to: (1) report recommendations for a plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 630. |
| SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Anchorage Land Conveyance Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey, without consideration, to the city of Anchorage, Alaska, the reversionary interests of the United States in specified parcels of non-federal land in order to une...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 629. |
| SB2990 | Intro
Sine Die | State Trade and Export Promotion Utilization Program for American Small Businesses Act or the STEP UP for American Small Businesses Act - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Associate Administrator for International Trade within the Small Bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB2991 | Intro
Sine Die | Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2692 | Intro
Sine Die | Campus Accountability and Safety Act - Amends provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) that partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. Hearings held. |
| SB2520 | Engross
Sine Die | FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to: (1) require federal agencies to make agency records that can be disclosed under such Act available for public inspection in an electronic format, (2) limit the authority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Held at the desk. |
| SB2235 | Intro
Sine Die | Democracy 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 that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless, at the time of the elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. |
