| SB2964 | Intro
Sine Die | Trade Adjustment Assistance Act of 2014 - Amends the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 to repeal the declaration that trade adjustment assistance (TAA) program requirements in effect as of February 13, 2011, under the Trade Act of 197...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2959 | Intro
Sine Die | Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2961 | Intro
Sine Die | Office of Planning for Future Intercity Transportation Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to establish within the Office of the Secretary the Office of Planning for Future Intercity Transportation (Office), headed by the Assistant Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2954 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher Education Affordability Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2948 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend to manufacturers of generic drugs the requirement that drug manufacturers in certain circumstances pay an additional rebate to state Medicaid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Power Act to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to prescribe just, reasonable, and not unduly discriminatory or preferential terms, conditions, and compensation applicable to wholesale demand response resourc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2953 | 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] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2949 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act - Prescribes certain whistleblower incentives and protections for motor vehicle manufacturer, part supplier, or dealership employees or contractors who voluntarily provide the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2957 | Intro
Sine Die | Do Not Disturb Act of 2014 - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to expand the list of entities prohibited from making telephone calls to numbers on the FTC's "do-not-call" registry to include: (1) political committees that accept do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2955 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the Inland Waterways Trust Fund financing rate to 29 cents per gallon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2950 | Intro
Sine Die | Physician Ambassadors Helping Veterans Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use the Secretary's authority to employ certain personnel without regard to civil service or classification laws, rules, or regulations to employ physicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2966 | Intro
Sine Die | Critical Care Assessment and Improvement Act of 2014 - Requires studies on critical care health services by the Institute of Medicine and the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Directs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2958 | Intro
Sine Die | Guard and Military Reservist Pay Security Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for differential wage payments to active duty members of the Uniformed Services, to: (1) make such credit permanent; (2) increase the rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2960 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to carry out a rental assistance and supportive housing program, in conjunction with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), for the benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |
| SB2965 | 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] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2952 | Intro
Sine Die | Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act of 2014 - Establishes in the executive branch a Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. Directs the Commission to conduct a comprehensive study of the data inventory, data infrastructure, and statistical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB2962 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical Expense Deduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from 10% to 7.5% of adjusted gross income the threshold after which medical expenses are fully deductible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2956 | Intro
Sine Die | Phone Scam Prevention Act of 2014 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require voice communications service providers to offer subscribers the option to designate a list of approved telephone numbers for which calls originating from those numbe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2951 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Dignified Burial Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA): (1) upon confirming the veteran status of a deceased veteran in the custody of a local medical examiner, funeral director, county service group, or other similar entity, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-20
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2943 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend Public Law 110-299 to extend the time period during which permits are not required for certain discharges incidental to the normal operation of vessels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-19
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2945 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 to repeal a provision prohibiting Alaska tribes other than the Metlakatla Indian Community from issuing and enforcing domestic violence protective orders against non-member Alaska Natives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-19
To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |
| SB2941 | Intro
Sine Die | Combat Human Trafficking Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code, with respect to sex trafficking of children, to: (1) subject to criminal prosecution buyers, as well as sellers, of commercial sex involving sex trafficking victims; (2) provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2944 | Intro
Sine Die | No Social Security for Nazis Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to consider the following individuals to be removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act and so to have the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2942 | Intro
Sine Die | Infectious Disease Hospital Hubs Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in an emergency or significant potential emergency which involves a specific infectious disease that requires the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-19
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2940 | Intro
Sine Die | American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a fee on: (1) fossil fuel products, including coal, petroleum products, and natural gas, for carbon dioxide emissions; and (2) emissions of any greenhouse gas other than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2938 | Intro
Sine Die | Soledad Canyon Settlement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to offer to cancel Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mineral contracts CA-20139 and CA-22901 (located in Soledad Canyon, California) and compensate the contract holder for the cancel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-18
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2939 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunlight for Unaccountable Non-profits (SUN) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require: (1) the annual tax return information for tax-exempt organizations and deferred compensation plans to be made available to the public at no charge and in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2937 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms of five years. Requires the president of the Federal Reserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-18
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2936 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Defense (DOD) to lease non-excess military property to local educational agencies or elementary or secondary schools at or below fair market value or for no consideration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-18
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB2685 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2014 or the USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 - Title I: FISA Business Records Reforms - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-18
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 58 - 42. Record Vote Number: 282. (consideration: CR S6079-6080; text: CR S6079) |
| SB2280 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. to construct, connect, operate, and maintain the pipeline and cross-border facilities specified in an application filed by TransCanada Corporation to the Department of State on May 4, 2012. Deems the Fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-18
Under the order of 11/12/14, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, failed of passage in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 59 - 41. Record Vote Number: 280. |
| SB2930 | Intro
Sine Die | Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act or the Clay Hunt SAV Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to each arrange for an independent third party evaluation of, respectively, the VA an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2932 | Intro
Sine Die | Microlab Technology Commercialization Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (DOE), in collaboration with the directors of national laboratories, to establish a program meeting specified criteria under which DOE sets up microlabs located in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2933 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly using an electronic tracking device to determine the location or movement of an individual with the intent to place the individual under surveillance without such individual's consent, except: (1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2934 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly going upon any critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce to commit a criminal offense. Defines "critical infrastructure" to as a vital physical system or asset, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2929 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing Opportunities to Work for Energy Reliability Act or the POWER Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review any decision by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NAERC)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2935 | Intro
Sine Die | Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Reauthorization Act or STOP Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program to reduce underage drinking for FY2015-FY2018. Revises reporting requirements for state programs on underage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2931 | Intro
Sine Die | Unfunded Mandates Accountability Act of 2014 - Revises rulemaking requirements under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) to: (1) require federal agencies to prepare and publish in the Federal Register an initial and final regulatory impac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act - (Sec. 3) Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to: develop and update biennially a strategic five-year technology in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 599. |
| SB1804 | Intro
Sine Die | Aviation Security Stakeholder Participation Act of 2014 - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration [TSA]) to establish in the TSA an aviation security advisory committee. Requires the Assistant Secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-17
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 598. |
| SB2920 | Intro
Sine Die | Nazi Social Security Benefits Termination Act of 2014 - Makes any participant in Nazi persecution ineligible for: (1) Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (SSA), and (2) Supplemental S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2926 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2923 | Intro
Sine Die | Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas Equal and Fair Opportunity Settlement Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |
| SB2928 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to publish a cost-benefit analysis before issuing any decision that would either: (1) authorize creation of a new capacity zone, or (2) affect the supply and demand curves or models used to det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2925 | Intro
Sine Die | Reports Reduction Act of 2014 - Eliminates or modifies reporting requirements for programs of the: (1) Department of Agriculture (USDA), (2) Department of Defense (DOD), (3) Department of Education, (4) Department of Homeland Security (DHS), (5) U.S....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB2927 | Intro
Sine Die | Inspectors General Streamlining Act - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to authorize each federal agency inspector general, in conducting an audit, investigation, inspection, evaluation, or other review authorized by such Act, to compare any r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB2924 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends federal shipping law to extend through October 31, 2028, the exemption of certain vessels from the requirement that U.S. passenger vessels having berth or stateroom accommodations for at least 50 passengers be constructed of fire-retardant mat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | May 31, 1918 Act Repeal Act - Repeals the Act of May 31, 1918 (authorized the Secretary of the Interior to set aside and reserve a tract of land within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho, for town-site purposes). Gives the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
By Senator Tester from Committee on Indian Affairs filed written report. Report No. 113-271. |
| SB1045 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an individual who has a seriously delinquent tax debt ineligible to continue serving as a federal employee or to be appointed as a federal employee. Defines "seriously delinquent tax debt" as an outstanding tax debt for which a notice of federa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-13
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 596. |
| SB2919 | Intro
Sine Die | Copyright and Marriage Equality Act - Amends federal copyright law to revise the definition of "widow" or "widower" for purposes of provisions concerning the transfer of a copyright to an author's spouse or other next of kin following the author's de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-11-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
