| SB2460 | Intro
Sine Die | Christopher Bryski Student Loan Protection Act or Christopher's Law - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require lenders of private education loans to: describe clearly and conspicuously, in writing, the cosigners' obligations regarding such loans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1771 | Intro
Sine Die | Crooked River Collaborative Water Security Act of 2013 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to modify the boundary of the Crooked River, Oregon. Requires an applicant, in any application submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 512. |
| SB1965 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the East Bench Irrigation District Water Contract Extension Act to permit the Secretary of the Interior to extend the contract for water services between the United States and the East Bench Irrigation District until the earlier of: (1) that d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 515. |
| SB2042 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Estuaries Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to reauthorize the National Estuary Program. Revises the purposes of management conferences convened with respect to estuaries. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 525. |
| SB1486 | Intro
Sine Die | Postal Reform Act of 2014 - Title I: Postal Service Workforce - (Sec. 101) Modifies the formula for contributions to the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) for postal employees: (1) to require t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 523. |
| SB2760 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor Vehicle and Highway Safety Enhancement Act of 2014 - Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) (other than the Mass Transit Account) for specified National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) safety programs (inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2756 | Intro
Sine Die | Fairness to Pet Owners Act of 2014 - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to require prescribers of animal drugs to verify prescriptions and provide copies of prescriptions to pet owners, pet owner designees, and pharmacies, without the prescri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2725 | Intro
Sine Die | Consequences for Russia's Arms Control Violations Act of 2014 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: the Russian Federation is in material breach of its Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty obligations through its prohibited flight testi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Aleut Confinement and Relocation Sites Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine whether the following sites are suitable for inclusion in the National Park System: (1) the World War II Aleut r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2771 | Intro
Sine Die | Water in the 21st Century Act or W21 - Establishes within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a WaterSense program to identify and promote water efficient products, buildings, landscapes, facilities, processes, and services. Requires the EPA t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2742 | Intro
Sine Die | Improving Access to Social Security Services Act - Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from imposing any reduction in public access on a Social Security Administration fie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2736 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax Refund Theft Prevention Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a safe harbor rule for errors on tax information and payee statements to treat such statements as correctly filed if there are one or more errors on such sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2769 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the federal judicial code with respect to the jurisdiction of federal courts over civil actions pending in, or on appeal from, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (USCFC) when the plaintiff also has pending in another federal court a civil action...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2747 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Regulatory Sunset Act of 2014 - Requires each federal agency to establish a plan for the periodic review (every nine years) of: (1) its rules that have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, and (2) an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB2740 | Intro
Sine Die | Connect with Veterans Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) establish a program to facilitate outreach to veterans by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the primary agencies of states for the administration of veterans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2722 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Our Infants Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study maternal opiate abuse and neonatal abstinence syndrome, identify gaps in evidence-informed recommendations for health care professionals and facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2648 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2014 - Appropriates supplemental funds for FY2014 to specified federal agencies and programs to respond to the increased apprehensions of unaccompanied children and minors along the southwestern border, figh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
Cloture motion on the bill rendered moot in Senate. |
| SB2750 | Intro
Sine Die | Airport Public-Private Partnership Act of 2014 - Revises provisions regarding a pilot program on airport privatization to delete provisions: (1) limiting the number of airports in the pilot program to not more than 10; (2) requiring that if applicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2739 | Intro
Sine Die | Biogas Investment Tax Credit Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an energy tax credit through 2019 for investment in qualified biogas property, and (2) financing of qualified biogas property with new clean renewable energy bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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 |
