| SB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor fuel excise tax fuel used in any highway vehicle designed exclusively to provide mobile mammography services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Dairy Augmentation for Increased Retail in Yogurt products (DAIRY) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt dairy farm savings accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the trade or business of dairy farming to use distributio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the special depreciation allowance (bonus depreciation) for dairy producing calves and cows purchased for business use, regardless of whether the original use of such livestock commenced with another taxpayer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule with respect to any farm, to requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB497 | Intro
Sine Die | San Juan Islands National Conservation Area Act - Establishes the San Juan Islands National Conservation Area in the state of Washington. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a comprehensive plan for the long-term management of the Conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB498 | Intro
Sine Die | Zimbabwe Sanctions Repeal Act of 2013 - Repeals the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001. (The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 prohibits U.S. support through international financial institutions for debt relief an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB499 | Intro
Sine Die | Patient Choice Restoration Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB500 | Intro
Sine Die | Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply employment and self-employment taxes to remuneration up to the contribution and benefit base and to remuneration in excess of $250,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB501 | Intro
Sine Die | Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Amends Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax exclusion for benefits paid to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical providers by states and local governments, to: (1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Prepare All Kids Act of 2013 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to establish a Prekindergarten Incentive Fund from which matching grants shall be awarded to states and, through them, subg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Sangre de Cristo National Historical Park Establishment Act - Establishes the Sangre de Cristo National Historical Park in Colorado as a unit of the National Park System. Requires the Park to be composed of cultural and historical sites and byways w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB504 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair And Immediate Release of Generic Drugs Act or FAIR Generics Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to revise the definition of “first applicant” for purposes of the 180-day exclusivity period given to first app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB506 | Intro
Sine Die | Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow sponsors of certain deferred compensation plans to elect to include length of service award plans for bona fide volunteers providing firefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB508 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthen and Vitalize Enforcement of Child Support (SAVE Child Support) Act - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require states to adopt the Uniform Interstate Family Support...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR69 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes, in the spirit of the "Arab Spring" revolution (where ordinary citizens have taken to the streets demanding an end to corruption, political cronyism, and government repression), that religious minority freedoms and rights must be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SR70 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the last full week of July 2013 as National Moth Week. Recognizes the importance of moths in the United States and the value of National Moth Week for promoting the conservation of moths and increasing the awareness, study, and appreciatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR71 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the week of March 4-8, 2013, as Military and Veterans Caregiver Week. Honors caregivers of members of the Armed Forces and veterans for their service and sacrifice to the United States. Calls upon the people of the United States to observe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1274; text as passed Senate: CR S1273) |
| SR72 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the 50th Anniversary of the founding of American Chiropractic Association and the many important contributions of the Association to the welfare of the chiropractic profession and the U.S. health delivery system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1274; text as passed Senate: CR S1273) |
| SR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates March 11, 2013, as World Plumbing Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1274; text as passed Senate: CR S1273) |
| SB468 | Intro
Sine Die | Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act of 2013 or CARE Act - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to transfer specified excess funds derived from coal mine operator-paid reclamation fees to the trustees of the 1974 Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB470 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Purple Heart to be placed in precedence above the Distinguished Warfare Medal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB471 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2013 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require certain consumer reporting agencies to disclose, without charge, as part of a consumer's free annual disclosure upon request, a current credit score generated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB472 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Nevada from being undertaken, except by express authorization of Congress. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from implementing, administering, or enforcing Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB473 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that if, by 45 days after a state Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office has submitted a Federal Register notice to the Washington, DC, office of the BLM for review by the Department of the Interior, the review has not been completed: (1) th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act with respect to the prohibition against certain federal assistance to swaps entities, namely the use of any advances from specified Federal Reserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act - Reauthorizes the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004 for FY2014-FY2018. Directs the Secretary of State to act through the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in awarding grants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Tribal Gaming Eligibility Act - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to place restrictions on the conduct of gaming on lands taken into trust for an Indian tribe after October 17, 1988, as part of the settlement of a land claim, initial reservatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |
| SB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit judicial review of, or the hearing of any claim arising from, visa or document revocation. (Judicial review is currently permitted in a deportation proceeding if such revocation is the sole groun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Efficiency Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat professional employer organizations (PEOs), certified by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as employers for employment tax purposes (thus allowing such PEOs to pay wages and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB480 | Intro
Sine Die | NICS Reporting Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends federal firearms provisions to define a person who has been adjudicated mentally incompetent or who has been committed to a psychiatric hospital as a person who is the subject of an order or finding iss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Wireless Consumer Choice Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to direct providers of commercial mobile services and commercial mobile data services to permit their subscribers to unlock any type of wireless device used to access...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB482 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Insurance Rate Review Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to declare that federal requirements that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) review unreasonable premium increases in health care coverage shall not be construed to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SCR6 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that Congress should not impose any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge relating to the public performance of sound recordings on a local radio station for broadcasting sound recordings over-the-air, or on any business for suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR68 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulates the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) on its continued success in support of the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. Commends the school's students, volunteers, and supporting organizations for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB464 | Intro
Sine Die | English Language Unity Act of 2013- Makes English the official language of the United States. Requires, subject to exceptions and rules of construction, that: (1) official functions of the U.S. government be conducted in English, and (2) all natural...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Forest Products Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include in the definition of "biobased product" forest products that meet biobased content requirements, notwithstanding the market share th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013 - Declares that Israel is a Major Strategic Partner of the United States. Amends the Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 to extend authority to: (1) make additions to foreign-based ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2013 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt from worldwide or numerical limitations on immigrant visas the sons and daughters of Filipino World War II veterans who were naturalized under t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to: (1) $8.20 an hour on the first day of the third month after the enactment of this Act; (2) $9.15 an hour after o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Improve Nutrition Program Integrity and Deficit Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to make households in which each member receives state assistance under the temporary assistance to needy families program (TANF), the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Alice Paul Women's Suffrage Congressional Gold Medal Act - Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the posthumous presentation of a congressional gold medal in commemor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Annual National Classified School Employee of the Year Award Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award National Classified School Employee of the Year Awards to classified public school employees within certain occupational specialties who pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB454 | Intro
Sine Die | Family Self-Sufficiency Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise the purpose of the Family-Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program to include the use of both low-income housing assistance under Section 8 of such Act (as in current law) and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB453 | Intro
Sine Die | American Manufacturing Efficiency and Retraining Investment Collaboration Achievement Works Act or AMERICA Works Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require state or local workforce investment systems to use youth activities funds fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Diabetes Prevention Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage of diabetes prevention program services to an eligible diabetes prevention program individual. Directs the Secretary of Health and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2013 - Makes technical corrections to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, including certain Acts within it as well as other specified Acts, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act of 2013 - Prohibits a federal financial regulatory agency from issuing notices of proposed or final rulemakings unless specified analyses have been included in them. Prohibits an agency from publishing a notic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Anton Dodaj, Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, and Kristjan Dodaj.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available a new federal income tax Form 1040SR (similar to Form 1040EZ) to individuals who have turned 65 as of the close of the taxable year. Allows the form to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB417 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to determine: (1) the number of civilian vehicles purchased and leased by each executive agency in FY2010, (2) the total dollar amounts obligated by each agency to purchase and to lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1124) |
