| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB2843 | Intro
Sine Die | National Guard and Reserve Access to Counsel Act - Expands eligibility for legal assistance provided by the Armed Forces special victims' counsel for eligible members and dependents who are victims of sex-related offenses to include a member of a res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB2841 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing Disparities Using Care Models and Education Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to contract with the Institute of Medicine to study health disparities, existing programs and policies intended to reduce dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2835 | Intro
Sine Die | Storm Shelter Affordability Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer a refundable tax credit, through December 31, 2017, for the lesser of 50% of qualified storm shelter costs or $1,000. Requires such a storm she...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2839 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2844 | Intro
Sine Die | James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program Fund through FY2041 and to index appropriations to the medical care component of the consumer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2840 | Intro
Sine Die | Billy's Law
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2440 | Engross
Sine Die | BLM Permit Processing Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to make the Federal Permit Streamlining Project program permanent. Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to collect for each of FY...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
Held at the desk. |
| SB2845 | Intro
Sine Die | Southern Prairie Potholes National Wildlife Refuge Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the approximately 23,500-acre Southern Prairie Potholes National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire land and water w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-17
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2814 | Intro
Sine Die | National Labor Relations Board Reform Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to revise requirements with respect to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), and the process for appellate review. Incre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act - Amends the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Act of 1978 to require a federal financial institutions regulatory agency to make a final examination report to a financial ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB2831 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the President to establish a primary mechanism to assist the private sector in coordinating U.S. development programs with private sector investment activities. Directs the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for Int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2823 | Intro
Sine Die | North American Energy Infrastructure Act - Prohibits any person from constructing, connecting, operating, or maintaining a cross-border segment of an oil or natural gas pipeline or electric transmission facility at the national boundary of the United...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2829 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial Regulatory Clarity Act of 2014 - Requires the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB),...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2819 | Intro
Sine Die | Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 2014 - Authorizes a rental company that receives a notification (approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA]) from the manufacturer of a covered rental vehicle about any e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2816 | Intro
Sine Die | Securing Assistance for Victims' Empowerment (SAVE) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the tax exemption for professional football leagues, and (2) deny a tax exemption for certain professional sports leagues which have annual g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2817 | Intro
Sine Die | Helping Innovation and Reviving Entrepreneurship Act of 2014 or the HIRE Act - Requires the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) ensure that the FCC complies with deadlines for determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2821 | Intro
Sine Die | Child and Elderly Missing Alert Program of 2014 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to award public safety and community policing grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to assist feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2832 | Intro
Sine Die | Employ Young Americans Now Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Employ Young Americans Fund, with an initial appropriation of $5.5 billion for FY2015. Requires the Secretary of Labor to make certain Fund allocations to each state with an approved wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2815 | Intro
Sine Die | Farmer Flexibility Act of 2014 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to extend the terms of marketing assistance loans in cases where a farmer has sold, transferred, or delivered the commodity subject to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB2824 | Intro
Sine Die | Florida Fisheries Improvement Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB1916 | Intro
Sine Die | Helping Expand Lending Practices in Rural Communities Act of 2014 or the HELP Rural Communities Act of 2014 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB2826 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening Forgiveness for Public Servants Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to cancel 15%, 15%, 20%, 20%, and 30% of the amount a borrower owes after 2, 4, 6, 8, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2825 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring Safe Access to Prescription Medication Act of 2014 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to modify the definition of "dispense" to include the delivery of a controlled substance by a pharmacy to a practitioner, if: (1) such delive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2818 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2014 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require physical therapists furnishing outpatient physical therapy services to use specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2830 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Public Health Service Act to make permanent the special diabetes programs for Indians, which provide services for prevention and treatment of diabetes through the Indian Health Service and Indian health programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2827 | Intro
Sine Die | Make Student Grants Truly Tax-Free Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax exclusion for scholarships to include amounts received: (1) through a scholarship or fellowship grant program administered by the Secretary of Education that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2820 | Intro
Sine Die | Garden Valley Withdrawal Act - Withdraws specified federal land in Garden Valley, Nevada, depicted on the map entitled Garden Valley Withdrawal Area, dated July 11, 2014, from: (1) entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1577 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage Choice Act of 2013 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act with respect to requirements for disclosure to a consumer of points and fees information about a consumer credit transaction, secured by the consumer's principal dwelling, but which is not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1349 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Lending Enhancement and Regulatory Relief Act of 2013 or CLEAR Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to exempt from its rules regarding management assessment of internal controls the following institutions which, as of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1806 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to modify the eligibility criteria for membership in the Federal Home Loan Bank System by redefining insured depository institution to cover certain insured depository institutions as defined by the Federal Depos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB2813 | Intro
Sine Die | National Prostate Cancer Council Act - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the National Prostate Cancer Council on Screening, Early Detection, Assessment, and Monitoring of Prostate Cancer to: (1) develop and implement a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2812 | Intro
Sine Die | Repay Act of 2014 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a simplified income-driven repayment program for students who become new borrowers of William D. Ford Feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2698 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory Easement for Lending Institutions that Enable a Vibrant Economy Act of 2014 or the RELIEVE Act - Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to publish in the Federal Register proposed revisions to the Small Bank Holding C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB2732 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Examination and Reporting Threshold Act of 2014 - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to raise the examination threshold that brings an insured depository institution or insured credit union withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-16
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB2199 | Intro
Sine Die | Paycheck Fairness Act - Amends the portion of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) known as the Equal Pay Act to revise remedies for, enforcement of, and exceptions to prohibitions against sex discrimination in the payment of wages. Revises th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
Cloture on the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 40. Record Vote Number: 262. (consideration: CR S5579-5580; text: CR H5579) |
| SB1406 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevent All Soring Tactics Act of 2013 or the PAST Act - Amends the Horse Protection Act (HPA) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe regulatory requirements for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to license, train, assign, and oversee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 562. |
| SB2809 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from garnishing the pay of an individual without a court order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2803 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that specified lands in Acadia National Park in Maine, which were conveyed by the National Park Service to the town of Tremont, Maine, for school purposes, shall no longer be required to be used exclusively and perpetually for such purposes,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2806 | Intro
Sine Die | Dependent Care Savings Account Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt dependent care savings accounts to pay the employment-related expenses of caring for a dependent of the taxpayer, (2) allow a deduction from gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2808 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee Health Care Protection Act of 2014 - Permits a health insurance issuer that has in effect health insurance coverage in the group market on any date during 2013 to continue offering such coverage for sale during 2014 outside of a health care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | New Columbia Admission Act - Sets forth procedures for admission into the United States of the state of New Columbia. Requires the Mayor of the District of Columbia to: (1) submit to the eligible voters propositions for statehood and adoption of a St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB2804 | Intro
Sine Die | Family Asthma Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collaborate with state and local health departments to: (1) conduct activities regarding asthma, including det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2810 | Intro
Sine Die | Service Members Transition Improvement Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to develop procedures to share with state veterans agencies information, in electronic data format, on members of the Armed Forces who are separating from se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2805 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic located at 1766 Majestic Lane in Billings, Montana, as the "Bear Root Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2807 | Intro
Sine Die | Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 [sic]- Requires states that receive certain criminal justice assistance grants to report to the Attorney General on a quarterly basis certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, arrest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-09-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
