| SB2898 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act - Makes any institution of higher education (IHE) postsecondary program designed to prepare students for a recognized occupation or profession requiring licensing or other entry pre-conditions ineligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2876 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Contraception Access and Education Act of 2014 - Prohibits payment to a hospital under titles XVIII (Medicare) or XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act unless the hospital promptly provides information about emergency contraception to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2896 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security Garnishment Modernization Act of 2014 - Exempts an inflation-adjusted $9,000 each year of an individual's benefits under the Social Security Act from being used by the Department of Education to offset the amount the individual owes o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2891 | Intro
Sine Die | Innovation in Surface Transportation Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), in coordination with state transportation departments, to establish an innovation in surface transportation program. Requires states to make competitive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SR575 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates September 2014 as National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Declares that steps should be taken to: (1) raise awareness of prostate cancer, (2) increase research funding to improve screening and treatment for prostate cancer, and (3) impro...
[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 Senate: CR S5800-5801) |
| SB2886 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the posthumous presentation of a congressional gold medal, collectively, to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to commemor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2903 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening Privacy, Oversight, and Transparency Act or the SPOT Act - Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to expand the functions of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to include reviews of legislation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR572 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates sailors of the U.S. Submarine Force upon the completion of 4,000 ballistic missile submarine deterrent patrols. Honors and thanks the crews and their families for their dedication and sacrifice.
[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 Senate: CR S5799) |
| SB2855 | Intro
Sine Die | Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to nondiscrimination requirements for tax-exempt employee pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans, to include protections for older, longer service p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2874 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting Detention of Youth Status Offenders Act of 2014 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, with respect to the detention of a juvenile status offender (a juvenile arrested for an offense that would not be a crim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2885 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting American Jobs Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to repeal the authority of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to issue, and prosecute before the Board, complaints with respect to unfair labor pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2867 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Quality Technical Educators Act of 2014 - Amends title II (Teacher Quality Enhancement) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize grants under the Teacher Quality Partnership grant program to be used for secondary school career and te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR570 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates October 17, 2014, as National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day to promote programs and activities that will lead to the greater use of cleaner, more efficient transportation that uses new sources of energy. Urges the people of the United State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2899 | Intro
Sine Die | Responsible Estate Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, to: (1) revise estate tax rates to impose an increased tax for estates over $3.5 million and a maximum tax rate of 55...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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 |
| SB2117 | Engross
Sine Die | Smart Savings Act - Makes the default investment in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) an age-appropriate target date asset allocation portfolio (L Fund), instead of the Government Securities Investment Fund (G Fund), if no election has been made for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
Held at the desk. |
| 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. |
| SB1214 | Engross
Sine Die | All-American Flag Act - Requires any flags of the United States acquired for use by the federal government to be entirely manufactured in the United States from articles, materials, or supplies entirely grown, produced, or manufactured in the United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| 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 |
