| SB2888 | Intro
Sine Die | Exercise and Fitness For All Act - Directs the Access Board to develop and publish guidelines for exercise or fitness service providers to provide accessible exercise or fitness equipment, including relevant personnel training. Requires such guidelin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR562 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the Senate 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 treatment making it mo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Budget Committee |
| SB2871 | Intro
Sine Die | Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad Act [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2907 | Intro
Sine Die | 21st Century Energy Workforce Development Jobs Initiative Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to establish a comprehensive program to improve the education and training of workers for energy-related jobs, with emphasis on increasing t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2872 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting Healthy Minds for Safer Communities Act of 2014 - Title I: Strengthening and Improving Intervention Efforts - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a program to award grants to states, political subdivisions... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2890 | Intro
Sine Die | Digital Coast Act of 2014 - Requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a constituent-driven Digital Coast program. (This program currently exists under NOAA to provide data, tools, and training that communities u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2862 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory Transparency, Patient Access, and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2014 [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2861 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes funding for environmental restoration activities of the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) in Florida as part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan if the Army Corps of Engineers gives approval by December 30, 2015. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2904 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB2897 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacturing Skills Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretaries of Commerce, Labor, Education, and Defense (DOD) and the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to jointly establish a Manufacturing Skills Partnership to administer and carry out ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2905 | Intro
Sine Die | Carbon Pollution Transparency Act of 2014 - Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to calculate a carbon score for legislation. Requires the score to include projected net greenhouse gas emissions that would result from enactm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Budget Committee |
| SR568 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the month of September 2014 as National Sepsis Awareness Month. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2869 | Intro
Sine Die | Counterterrorism Border Security Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct an assessment (which shall consider the visa waiver program requirements for travelers and program countries) and report to Congress regard... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2863 | Intro
Sine Die | Transparency in Education Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Education from issuing a final rule or implementing a proposed rule affecting the determination as to whether a postsecondary career education program provides training that leads to gainful ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2884 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth a special rule to deny tax-exempt status to a professional sports league that promotes, or allows a member club or franchise to promote, the use of the term "redskin" in connection with any team... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2878 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Loan Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income income imputed from a discharge of student loan indebtedness based on repayments which are income contingent or income based or a discharge due to the death o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2910 | Intro
Sine Die | Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act - Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a court to conduc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2852 | Intro
Sine Die | State Regulatory Representation Clarification Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require that one of the presidential appointees to the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) once served as a sta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SR420 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the week of October 6-12, 2014, as Naturopathic Medicine Week. Recognizes the value of naturopathic medicine in providing safe, effective, and affordable health care. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. |
| SR565 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that: the Canadian government should not allow a permanent nuclear waste repository to be built within the Great Lakes Basin, the President and the Secretary of State should take appropriate action ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2881 | Intro
Sine Die | Simplifying Technical Aspects Regarding Seasonality Act of 2014 or the STARS Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt seasonal employees from the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide emp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR563 | Intro
Sine Die | Calls for the President to launch international negotiations with the governments of the world's leading powers for new, effective extradition treaties with countries with which the United States has no current extradition authority, and to renegotia... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2868 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to establish a 10-year statute of limitations governing an action or proceeding by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a civil monetary penalty. Tolls this statute of limitations any time an al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2870 | Intro
Sine Die | On the Job Training Act - Amends title III (Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration) of the Social Security Act, with respect to grants to states by the Secretary of Labor for reemployment demonstration projects, to allow grants... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2864 | Intro
Sine Die | Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to the impact of climate change on health systems. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) publish and implement a national st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2875 | Intro
Sine Die | National Guard Investigations Transparency and Improvement Act of 2014 - Codifies the establishment of the Office of Complex Administrative Investigations (the Office) in the Office of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. Requires the Office to un... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SR571 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates September 30, 2014, as United States and India Partnership Day. Recognizes that the U.S.-India relationship is a special and permanent bond. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5880; text as passed Sentate: CR S5799) |
| SB2892 | Intro
Sine Die | 401(Kids) Education Savings Account Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate after 2014 the income-based reduction of contributions to Coverdell education savings accounts, (2) increase the annual contribution limit for such a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2853 | Intro
Sine Die | Accelerating Action in Maternal and Child Health Act of 2014 - Directs the President to establish a strategy to: accelerate action in each of the priority countries listed in this Act to combat the leading causes of maternal, newborn, and child mor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2882 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhanced 529 - Setting Aside for a Valuable Education Act or the Enhanced 529 - S.A.V.E. Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax credit for contributions to a qualified tuition program (529 tuition program); and (2) allow an exclus... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2901 | Intro
Sine Die | 10 Million Solar Roofs Act of 2014 - Requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a program to provide rebates for the purchase and installation of photovoltaic systems with the goal to install 10 million systems with a cumulative capacity of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2670 | Intro
Sine Die | Keep the Promise Act of 2014 - Restricts gaming on land within the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area acquired by the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe after April 9, 2013. Terminates the restriction on January 1, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SR558 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the week of September 22-28, 2014, as National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week. Encourages people across the United States to support programs to assist individuals in need of adult education, workforce skills, and family literacy... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5720; text as passed Senate: CR S5705) |
| SB2850 | Intro
Sine Die | Startup Opportunity Accelerator Act of 2014 or the SOAR Act - Amends the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to develop a program to award cash prizes of up to $50,000 to organizations in the Uni... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB2842 | Intro
Sine Die | Caregiver Corps Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to contract with a nonprofit to develop an online toolkit and guidance providing for the establishment and implementation o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2834 | Intro
Sine Die | Protect Veterans Employment and Training Services Act of 2014 - Amends the disabled veterans' outreach program to authorize the Secretary of Labor to establish an order of priority for furnishing program services if state disabled veterans' outreach ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2836 | Intro
Sine Die | Integrated Space Launch Policy Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to jointly, in coordination with the National Security Council, the Director of the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SR551 | Intro
Sine Die | Supports the goals and ideals of National Campus Safety Awareness Month. Encourages colleges and universities to provide campus safety and other crime awareness and prevention programs to students throughout the year. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2849 | Intro
Sine Die | Developing Innovative Partnerships and Learning Opportunities that Motivate Achievement Act or the DIPLOMA Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award renewable five-year grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local consortia that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR555 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the week of September 15-September 19, 2014, as National Health Information Technology Week. Recognizes the value of information technology and management systems in transforming health care and encourages promotion and use of health infor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5720; text as passed Senate: CR S5704) |
| SB2833 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Air, Strong Economies Act or the CASE Act - Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from lowering its existing national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) until at least 85% of countries that are in nonattainment areas (countries... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SR559 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the week beginning on October 19, 2014, as National Chemistry Week. Recognizes the need to promote the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and to encourage youth to pursue careers in such fields. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5720; text as passed Senate: CR S5705-5706) |
| SR553 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the 250th anniversary of the Hartford Courant and the positive impact of such newspaper throughout U.S. history. Acknowledges the importance of a vibrant free press to democracy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5720; text as passed Senate: CR S5703) |
| SB2476 | Intro
Sine Die | Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act of 2014 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promulgate regulations that prohibit broadband providers, in transmitting network traffic over the broadband Internet access service of an end... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. |
| SB2837 | Intro
Sine Die | Military and Veterans Education Protection Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require proprietary institutions of higher education to derive at least 10% of their revenue from sources other than title IV... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2848 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Airport Regulation Relief Act of 2014 - Prescribes a special rule to require the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) for FY2015-FY2017 to apportion amounts for airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning and programs to spon... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2846 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State: (1) is authorized to revoke the passport of any U.S. citizen whose activities abroad are likely to seriously damage U.S. national security or foreign policy; and (2) should use such autho... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SJR44 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorization for Use of Military Force against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - Authorizes the President for one year, as part of a multinational coalition, to: use all appropriate force to participate in an air campaign in Iraq, and if ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2838 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Optimal Use of Trade to Develop Outerwear and Outdoor Recreation Act or the U.S. OUTDOOR Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain recreational performance outerwe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2847 | Intro
Sine Die | Economic Development Through Tribal Land Exchange Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon receipt of confirmation that Lloyd L. Fields has executed and deposited with an escrow holder in California a deed conveying title to certain lands d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17 To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |