| SB2600 | Intro
Sine Die | UAC State Notification Act of 2014 - Amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to notify the govern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2013 - Extends federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. Makes the Tribe and each member eligible for all services and benefits provided by the United State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-14
By Senator Tester from Committee on Indian Affairs filed written report. Report No. 113-208. Additional views filed. |
| SB2354 | Intro
Sine Die | DHS Cybersecurity Workforce Recruitment and Retention Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish, as positions in the excepted service, such positions in the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-14
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 463. |
| SB2363 | Intro
Sine Die | Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2014 - Revises a variety of existing programs to expand access to, and opportunities for, hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting. Reauthorizes the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, the North American Wetla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
Cloture on the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 41 - 56. Record Vote Number: 220. (consideration: CR S4377-4378; text: CR S4377) |
| SB2579 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of State, in accordance with the Rewards for Justice program authorized under the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, to offer a reward of up to $5 million to any individual who furnishes information leading to the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 460. |
| SB2594 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the railroad station located at 2955 Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, commonly known as 30th Street Station, as the "William H. Gray 30th Street Station." Bars the use of federal funds to modify signage at the station...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2587 | Intro
Sine Die | Lawful Ivory Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit any regulation that goes in effect after February 24, 2014, from: prohibiting or restricting the possession, sale, delivery, receipt, shipping, or transport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | Girls Count Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to: (1) support programs that will contribute to improved civil registration and vital statistics systems with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2582 | Intro
Sine Die | American Diversification and Progress in Trade Act of 2014 or the ADAPT Act - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a pilot program to assist in expanding and diversifying the business of small businesses t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB2593 | Intro
Sine Die | FLAME Act Amendments Act of 2014 - Amends the FLAME Act of 2009 to revise how the FLAME Funds for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) are funded. Makes amounts appropriated to a FLAME Fund available to USDA or Int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2588 | Intro
Sine Die | Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 - (Sec. 3) Requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), the Secretary of Defense (DOD), and the Attorney General (DOJ) to develop and promulgate procedur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 462. |
| SB2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Educating Tomorrow's Workforce Act of 2014 - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to revise the requirements for the plan of a state seeking federal assistance for career and technical education programs. Requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2589 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies Act of 2014 - Amends federal bankruptcy law governing expenses and claims to increase to $20,000: (1) allowed unsecured claims in the fourth order of priority (wages, salaries, or commissions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2586 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Common Access Card Act of 2014 - Establishes a pilot program under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) in order to utilize smart card technology for Medicare beneficiary and provider identification cards. Amends SSA title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2595 | Intro
Sine Die | North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to extend the North Country National Scenic Trail into Vermont.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2590 | Intro
Sine Die | Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center Act of 2014 - Ratifies the conveyance of 27.29 acres of land from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks to the United States. Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2585 | Intro
Sine Die | Iran Human Rights Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 to expand the list of persons subject to sanctions for human rights abuses and other acts of violence and intimidation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2580 | Intro
Sine Die | Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2014 - Redesignates the Ocmulgee National Monument in Georgia as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. Adjusts the boundary of the Historical Park to include approximately 2,1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | End Trafficking Act of 2014 - Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act of 2014 or the SAVE Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the advertising of commercial sex acts with children or with others who are coerced to engage in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4294) |
| SB2496 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Water and Property Rights Act of 2014 - Prohibits the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from: (1) finalizing the proposed rule entitled "Definition of `Waters of the United States...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4294-4296) |
| SB2503 | Intro
Sine Die | Bill Williams River Water Rights Settlement Act of 2014 - Authorizes, ratifies, and confirms the Big Sandy River-Planet Ranch Water Rights Settlement Agreement between the Hualapai Tribe, the Department of of the Interior, the Arizona Game and Fish C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-419. |
| SB2574 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy Families Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to make the United States Preventive Services Task Force subject to Federal Advisory Committee Act requirements, including open meetings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2575 | Intro
Sine Die | Sage-Grouse Accountability and Private Conservation Act of 2014 - Directs the Department of the Interior to report on the status of the greater sage-grouse conservation efforts by December 15, 2014. Requires the report to include a description of: (1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2572 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2014 - Prohibits the distribution of a food if its container is composed, in whole or in part, of bisphenol A (BPA) or can release BPA into food. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to grant one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2570 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption Tax Credit Tribal Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow Indian tribes to make the determination that a child is a child with special needs for purposes of the adoption tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2014 - Modifies the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Georgia to include approximately eight acres identified as Wallis House and Harriston Hill. Aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Infrastructure Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property expenditures, to: (1) increase the rate of such credit from 30% to 50% for hydrogen-r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2568 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocating for Children's Education Act or the ACE Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to Coverdale education savings accounts, to: (1) increase from $2,000 to $5,000 the maximum allowable contribution to such accounts in a taxable y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2567 | Intro
Sine Die | Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment Act of 2014 or the REDEEM Act - Amends the federal criminal code to provide a process for the sealing or expungement of records relating to nonviolent or juvenile offenses. Requires a court considerin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2566 | Intro
Sine Die | Nevada Mining Townsite Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to implement an expedited program to examine and determine the validity of each unpatented mining claim (including each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2565 | Intro
Sine Die | Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for employment-related expenses incurred for the care of a taxpayer's dependent, to: (1) increase to $200,000, the adjusted gross income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2562 | Intro
Sine Die | Bring Jobs Home Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) grant business taxpayers a tax credit for up to 20% of insourcing expenses incurred for eliminating a business located outside the United States and relocating it within the United States...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-07
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 451. |
| SB2028 | Intro
Sine Die | Sport Fish Restoration and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Aid in Fish Restoration Act to reauthorize through FY2021 the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund. Extends the distributions of appropriations to: (1) t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-07
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 452. |
| SB2538 | Intro
Sine Die | Viral Hepatitis Testing Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carry out surveillance, education, and testing programs with respect to hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2541 | Intro
Sine Die | Competitive Service Act of 2014 - Authorizes an appointing authority (i.e., a federal agency appointing an individual to a position in the competitive service) other than the appointing authority that requested the certificate of eligibles for fillin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB2553 | Intro
Sine Die | Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 or the IMPACT Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) require post-acute care (PAC) provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2545 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs: (1) within 180 days after the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) submits a report to Congress in 2014 that identifies VA medical facilities at which scheduling practices did not com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, working with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, should provide the armed forces of Ukraine with appropriate non-lethal military assistance and military training support requested by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2542 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to preempt a state statute of repose for actions brought under state law for personal injury or property damages caused from or contributed to by exposu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | Patriot Employer Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a Patriot employer a business-related tax credit for up to 10% of the first $15,000 of wages paid to any employee in a taxable year. Sets forth criteria for designation as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2533 | Intro
Sine Die | Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act - Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to include an offset in any proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions and imposes increased costs on other agencies. Requires the offset to be from fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2550 | 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] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2549 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations permitting individuals to safely import into the United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2537 | Intro
Sine Die | Red River Private Property Protection Act - Directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to relinquish and transfer, by quitclaim deed, all interest of the United States in and to the lands along the approximately 539-mile stretch of the Red River bet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2548 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to use its authority (including emergency powers) to: (1) to curb immediately the role of excessive speculation in any contract market within its jurisdiction and control on or through which ene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB2536 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act of 2014 or the SAVE Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) knowingly selling, commercially promoting, placing, or maintaining an adult advertisement (an advertisement designed to induce a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2547 | Intro
Sine Die | RESPONSE Act of 2014 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish the Railroad Emergency Services Preparedness, Operational Needs, and Safety Evaluation Subcommi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2015. Title I: Departmental Management and Operations - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 443. |
| SB2557 | Intro
Sine Die | Core Opportunity Resources for Equity and Excellence Act of 2014 - Amends the school improvement program under part A of title I of the the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require states to adopt student achievement standards...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2544 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes any landowner within the Northport Irrigation District in Nebraska to repay, at any time, the construction costs of project facilities allocated to the landowner's land within the District. Provides that upon discharge in full of the oblig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
