| SB2731 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) create an exception to Medicare secondary payer requirements for certain workers' compensation settlement agreements, and (2) provide for the satisfaction of such requirements through u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States through FY2019. Extends, for FY2015-FY2019, the Bank's authority to use a specified amount of its su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 502. |
| SB2752 | Intro
Sine Die | Endangered Species Recovery Transparency Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) to require the Secretary of the Interior to make available online a searchable database detailing federal expenditures for civil actions brought under the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Older Americans Community Access Revitalization and Education Act or the Older Americans CARE Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA) to redefine Aging and Disability Resource Center as a collaborative network that has a no wrong door sing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2753 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing Student Achievement by Increasing Student Support Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive, renewable, five-year grants to partnerships between low-income local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools offering graduate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2715 | Intro
Sine Die | Competitiveness and Opportunity by Modernizing and Permanently Extending the Tax Credit for Experimentation Act of 2014 or the COMPETE Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for research expenditures, to: (1) i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2729 | Intro
Sine Die | Private Landowner Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to exclude an area from de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2744 | Intro
Sine Die | Great Smoky Mountains National Park Agreement Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer specified funds previously appropriated to the National Park Service to counties within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in accordanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2754 | Intro
Sine Die | Lobbying and Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to declare that, for purposes of dollar limits on contributions, any bundled contribution forwarded by a currently registered lobbyist or a pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB2738 | Intro
Sine Die | Toxic Exposure Research Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to select a medical center in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to serve as the national center for research on the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2719 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufacturing Universities Act of 2014 - Authorizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a program to designate up to 25 institutions of higher education as U.S. manufacturing universities that are to be awarded fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Captive Insurers Clarification Act - Amends the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 to define "captive insurance company" as an insurance company wholly owned directly or indirectly: (1) by a single parent company and whose prima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2720 | Intro
Sine Die | Route to Opportunity And Development Act of 2014 or the ROAD Act of 2014 - Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, as amended, to revise the high priority Raleigh-Norfolk Corridor of the National Highway System between Ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2746 | Intro
Sine Die | Sudden Unexpected Death Data Enhancement and Awareness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue activities relating to stillbirth, sudden unexpected infant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2727 | Intro
Sine Die | Klamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 2014 - Ratifies the Hydroelectric Settlement (Settlement), the Klamath River Basin Restoration Agreement for the Sustainability of Public and Trust Resources and Affected Communities (Resto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2762 | Intro
Sine Die | Propane Supply and Security Act of 2014 - Directs the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to publish weekly inventory data on propane storage and propane markets, including pricing data for residential customers in states tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to establish the Marketplace Health Insurance Corporation, with a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Board of Directors, to oversee health care exchanges and health insurance. Directs the President...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2737 | Intro
Sine Die | Invest in American Jobs Act of 2014 - Revises Buy American requirements with respect to federal-aid highways, capital investment grants to support intercity passenger rail service (rail grants), and Amtrak, particularly the handling of waiver request...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2721 | Intro
Sine Die | Natural Gas Long Haul Truck Competitiveness Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to issue regulations to allow natural gas vehicles to exceed any federal weight limitations to operate on the Interstate Highway System by an amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2770 | Intro
Sine Die | Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act - Amends the Equal Access to Justice Act and the federal judicial code to require the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States to submit to Congress and make publicly available on an Inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Rural and Tribal Voter Rights Act - Directs the Election Assistance Commission to make a payment each fiscal year to each state which meets early voting location distribution plan development requirements for ensuring that eligible voters have adequa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | SBIC Advisers Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to exempt specified advisers of small business investment companies (SBICs) from certain: (1) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration requirements with respec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2735 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend until December 31, 2014: (1) the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce, and (2) the grandfather provisions allowing states that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2743 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Children and America's Homeland Act of 2014 - Division A: Supplemental Appropriations - Provides supplemental FY2014 appropriations for expenses related to the rise in unaccompanied alien children and alien adults accompanied by an alien m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB2758 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, for purposes of modernizing the C-130 aircraft fleet, to install alternative communication, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic management program kits in lieu of C-130 aircraft avionics modernization ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB2761 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Empowerment Act - Revises requirements for the apportionment of state planning funds to metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs). Requires a state's apportionment to be distributed in accordance with a formula that prioritizes the needs of h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2718 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting Athletes, Families and Educators to Protect the Lives of Athletic Youth Act or the SAFE PLAY Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop public educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2766 | Intro
Sine Die | Palestinian and United Nations Anti-Terrorism Act of 2014 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) deny U.S. assistance to any entity or international organization that collaborates with Hamas until Hamas agrees to recognize Israel, renounces vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2724 | Intro
Sine Die | Incentivize Growth Now In Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt small business start-up accounts to allow businesses that employ 50 or fewer full-time employees to make distributions for opera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1946 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to increase the authorization ceiling for FY2014. Increases the maximum amount of funds that may be be obligated for carrying out actual construction to modify an existing dam prior to 30 calendar da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 514. |
| SB2714 | Intro
Sine Die | World War I American Veterans Centennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) mint and issue $1 silver coins to commemorate the centennial of the involvement of the United States in World War I, and (2) hold a compet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2741 | Intro
Sine Die | Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - (Sec. 101) Authorizes FY2015 appropriations for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the: (1) Office of the Director of National In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 519. |
| SB2767 | Intro
Sine Die | Combating Fraudulent Child Transfers Act - Amends federal criminal law to make it unlawful for a person to obtain custody of an unaccompanied alien child if the person: (1) makes any materially false or fraudulent statement, or knowingly makes or use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2733 | Intro
Sine Die | Obamacare Opt-Out Act of 2014 - Exempts from the minimum essential coverage requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act individuals who request an exemption through a health care marketplace or on their federal income tax return...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2728 | Intro
Sine Die | Community-Based Medical Education Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend through FY2019 at increased levels the program of payments to teaching health centers that operate graduate medical education (GME) programs. Directs the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2723 | Intro
Sine Die | Housing for Homeless Students Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify low-income building units that provide housing for full-time students who were homeless youth or homeless veterans during a five-year period prior to occupying a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1961 | Intro
Sine Die | Chemical Safety and Drinking Water Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or each state exercising primary enforcement responsibility for public water syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 524. |
| SB2764 | Intro
Sine Die | American Livestock Protection and Ranching Opportunity Act of 2014 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: the majority of consumers in the United States want to know where animals used to produce the meat eaten are born, raised, and slaughtered; cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB2734 | Intro
Sine Die | Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2730 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental Health Exposure Military Official Record Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish a significant event tracker (SET) system to track and report individual exposures to traumatic events for members of the Armed Forces, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB2695 | Intro
Sine Die | Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act or the SOS Campus Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in the programs under title IV (Student Assistance) to designate an indep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2123 | Intro
Sine Die | School District 318 Land Exchange Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) accept any offer by the Minnesota Independent School District number 318 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to convey to the United States approximately 1.6 acres of speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-433. |
| SB2710 | Intro
Sine Die | Philanthropic Enterprise Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt the holdings of a private foundation in any business enterprise that meet specified requirements relating to exclusive ownership, minimum distribution of net operating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2690 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Student Privacy Act of 2014 - Amends the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit programs administered by the Department of Education from making funds available to any educational agency or institution that has not i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2699 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Federal Credit Union Act regarding insured amounts payable in connection with a bankrupt state-chartered credit union for which the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board is the liquidating agent. Revises requirements relating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014 - Expands the TRICARE health care program managed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to entitle additional female beneficiaries and dependents to care related to the preventi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2014 - Prohibits the federal government, and any state that receives federal funding for any program that provides child welfare services under part B (Child and Family Services) or part E (Federal Payments for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Access to Court Challenges for Exempt Status Seekers (ACCESS) Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the availability of the declaratory judgment legal remedy to all organizations that are currently classified as tax-exempt (current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2686 | Intro
Sine Die | Wounded Warrior Tax Equity Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prevent any extension of the tax collection period after assessment for taxpayers who are members of the Armed Forces due to a hospitalization for combat zone injuries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
