| HB5875 | Intro
Sine Die | SAVE Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB5866 | Intro
Sine Die | National Statistics on Deadly Force Transparency Act of 2014 - Requires the Attorney General to issue regulations for the collection and compilation of data pertaining to the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers, which shall require: the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB5886 | Intro
Sine Die | African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB3002 | Intro
Sine Die | Guarding Our Great Lakes Act - Requires the Chief of Engineers, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and each ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB5867 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon the request of the licensee for the project numbered 12478-003 (Gibson Dam, Montana), to extend for six years the time period during which the licensee is required to commence construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB5883 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Tax for Repatriation Act - Declares that the federal tax on U.S. corporations earning profits abroad shall be a flat 5%. Makes the Department of the Treasury responsible for administering and enforcing such tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5850 | Intro
Sine Die | You Earned It Act - Amends the Internet Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits, and so exclude them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SR597 | Intro
Sine Die | Supports the goals and ideals of World AIDS Day. Commends the progress in global AIDS programs supported through the efforts of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 649. |
| HB5826 | Intro
Sine Die | Water Quality Investment Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| HR776 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the rule for consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.B. 83) to require the Secretary of the Interior to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to address the energy needs of the insular areas of the United...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB5818 | Intro
Sine Die | To relinquish all Federal interests in certain lands in the State of Louisiana to correct errors resulting from possible omission of lands from previous surveys, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation |
| HB5806 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting America's Charities Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the tax deduction for charitable contributions by individuals and corporations of real property interests for conservation purposes, and (2) tax-free distrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 275 - 149 (Roll no. 562). |
| HB5741 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2014 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) to revise requirements for the audit capacity of voting systems, particularly those for a permanent paper record. Requires the voting system to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Research and Technology |
| HB5718 | Intro
Sine Die | Stockman Effect Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the impact that a shift in the Earth's magnetic field could have on the weather.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Environment |
| HB5526 | 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] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Research and Technology |
| HB5548 | Intro
Sine Die | Consortia-Led Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Networks Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Energy |
| HB5663 | Intro
Sine Die | Bridge to Manufacturing Jobs Act - Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to: (1) provide that themes for the competitive grant program to add capabilities to the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program may be related to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Research and Technology |
| HB5527 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act - Amends the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to authorize the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support entrepreneurial programs that recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Research and Technology |
| HB5571 | Intro
Sine Die | 10-20-30 Act of 2014 - Requires 10% of funds made available in appropriations Acts in FY2015-FY2025 for specified accounts or activities to be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties. Defines "persistent poverty counties" as any count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Research and Technology |
| HB5545 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2009 through FY2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Environment |
| HB5564 | 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] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Research and Technology |
| HB5666 | Intro
Sine Die | To strengthen United States-Israel science and technology cooperation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Research and Technology |
| HB5402 | Intro
Sine Die | Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2014 - Amends the Clayton Act with respect to actions brought by the Attorney General for violations of antitrust laws. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but only under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 495. |
| HB5233 | Intro
Sine Die | Trade Secrets Protection Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Amends the federal criminal code to authorize an owner of a trade secret related to a product or service used in interstate or foreign commerce, who is aggrieved by a misappropriation of such trade secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 494. |
| SCR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. government should: (1) use all lawful tools to bring Warren Weinstein home to his family; (2) make the return of all U.S. citizens held captive abroad a top priority; and (3) keep Congress apprised of its...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 647. |
| SB1784 | Intro
Sine Die | Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2013 - Names the Act of August 28, 1937, as the Oregon and California Land Grant Act. Requires the management of those parts of certain revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Roa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 646. |
| SB1463 | Intro
Sine Die | Captive Primate Safety Act - Amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to add nonhuman primates to the definition of "prohibited wildlife species" for purposes of the prohibition against the sale or purchase of such species in interstate or foreign com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 650. |
| HB2882 | Intro
Sine Die | Improving Opportunities for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to enter into a memorandum of understanding with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 113-662, Part I. |
| HB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Commonsense Construction Contracting Act of 2013 - Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit reverse auction methods (bidding from high to low) from being used in the case of any contract for the procurement of design and construction services if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 497. |
| HB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Buildings Savings and Reform Act of 2013 - Sets forth new requirements for the purchase or lease of federal office space, for limiting rental costs for such space, and for suspending the construction of new courthouses. (Sec. 2) Requires any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 493. |
| HB2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Women's Procurement Program Equalization Act of 2013 - Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the procurement program for women-owned small businesses (providing a federal procurement contracting preference to such businesses) to condition a g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 498. |
| HB1869 | Intro
Sine Die | Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2014 - Title I: Congressional Budget Process - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA), including the Congressional Impoundment Control Act of 1974, to revise the federal and congressional bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 492. |
| HB5837 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide for the establishment of a global affairs strategy and assistance for people of African descent, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5827 | Intro
Sine Die | Christmas Tree Tax Exclusion Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB5842 | Intro
Sine Die | Revamping the Education of our Veterans to Align Manufacturing through Partnerships with Community Colleges Act of 2014 or the REVAMP with Community Colleges Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to award grants to community colleges to: (1) a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5845 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB5831 | Intro
Sine Die | Police Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to require a state or local law enforcement officer in a public agency which receives federal justice assistance, who engages in conduct that would constitute a federal crime of vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB5847 | Intro
Sine Die | Fifth Amendment Restoration Act of 2014 - Prohibits government seizures of private property under any federal law providing for civil asset forfeiture. Defines "property" to include real property, financial assets, and commonly held property owned by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB5838 | Intro
Sine Die | Private Prison Information Act of 2014 - Subjects records relating to the operation of and prisoners in a prison or other correctional or detention facility that is owned or operated by a nongovernmental entity, state, or local government and that in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB5840 | Intro
Sine Die | School Protection Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB5839 | Intro
Sine Die | Grow Your Own Teacher Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a Grow Your Own Teacher program making competitive grants to eligible entities to train and employ certain individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB5830 | Intro
Sine Die | Grand Jury Reform Act of 2014 - Requires a state to comply with the requirements of this Act in order for it, or a local governmental unit thereof, to be eligible to receive funding under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program. Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SR598 | Intro
Sine Die | Mourns the death of Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig and expresses condolences to his family and loved ones. Condemns the terrorist acts by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), including the targeting of innocent civilians, journalists, and aid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6581; text as passed Senate: CR S6543) |
| HB5846 | Intro
Sine Die | Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SB2994 | Intro
Sine Die | Leveling the Playing Field Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the administration and enforcement of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders. Declares that neither the administering authority (the Secretary of Commerce,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR596 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemns the mass murder in Indonesia in 1965-1966. Expresses concern about the lack of accountability enjoyed by those who carried out crimes during this period. Urges political leaders in Indonesia to consider a truth, justice, and reconciliation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2996 | Intro
Sine Die | PATH Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HR777 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes the 66th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the celebration of Human Rights Day. Supports the ideals of human rights and reaffirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Encourages all nations to continue work...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5832 | Intro
Sine Die | Proudly Restoring Officers of Prior Enlistment Retirement Act or the PROPER Act - Reduces to four the number of years that previously enlisted commissioned officers who have performed a certain minimum number of years of military service to become el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Armed Services Committee |
| SB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | Child and Dependent Care FSA Enhancement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $7,500 the amount of employer-provided dependent care assistance that an employee may exclude from gross income. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
