US Legislation | 2013-2014 | 113th Congress | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB5843	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act, with respect to protections for credit reports of minor consumers, to require a consumer reporting agency, upon request by the legal guardian or custodian of a minor consumer (including the state or tribal agency... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Financial Services Committee
SB2993	Intro Sine Die	Students Before Profits Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to require the Secretary of Education to: (1) use corrected data and information to recalculate the cohort default rates for institutions of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
HB5833	Intro Sine Die	Taxpayer Protections Against Abusive Seizures Act - Requires notice of a right to request a court hearing to each person whose property is seized or restrained because of an alleged violation of the prohibition against structuring transactions to eva... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Financial Services Committee
HB5829	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax exemption for private activity bond interest if the proceeds from such a bond are to be used for basic research (i.e., any original investigation for the advancement of scientific knowledge not having a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB5835	Intro Sine Die	Comprehensive TB Elimination Act of 2014 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Energy And Commerce Committee
SB2995	Intro Sine Die	Clean Water Compliance and Affordability Act [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
HB5825	Intro Sine Die	No Healthcare Subsidies for Foreign Diplomats Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax credit for the cost of health insurance premiums and health insurance cost-sharing reductions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
HB5828	Intro Sine Die	USA Retirement Funds Act - Requires each employer (except certain small employers, governments, and churches) that does not maintain a qualifying plan or arrangement meeting specified criteria for any part of a calendar year to make available to each... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB5834	Intro Sine Die	Closing the Digital Divide for Students Act of 2014 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require high-speed Internet service costs to be included in public housing utility allowances for households with children who qualify for free and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Financial Services Committee
HB5841	Intro Sine Die	Local Medicaid Enforcement Incentives Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a grant program to provide states with funds to: (1) detect and prevent Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse; (2) recover overpaymen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Energy And Commerce Committee
HR775	Intro Sine Die	Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (S. 2244) to extend the termination date of the Terrorism Insurance Program established under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of motions t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
HB5822	Intro Sine Die	Developing Standards for Electronic Shipping Papers Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to establish a Hazardous Materials Information Advisory Committee to develop voluntary standards and best practices for first responders a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
SB2992	Intro Sine Die	Military Justice Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to direct the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Homeland Security (DHS) to require the Secretaries of the military departments to modify the process for dete... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 644.
HB5750	Intro Sine Die	Orphan Product Extensions Now Accelerating Cures and Treatments Act of 2014 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8938)
SB2873	Intro Sine Die	National Park System Donor Acknowledgment Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to authorize donor acknowledgments (a statement, logo, trademark, proper legal name, or other reasonable form of credit) at a a visitor center or adminis... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 641.
SB2602	Intro Sine Die	Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in the state of Washington. Designates the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust as the local coordinating entity for the Heritage... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 640.
SB2379	Intro Sine Die	Klamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 2014 - (Sec. 3) Authorizes, ratifies, and confirms: (1) the Hydroelectric Settlement (Settlement), the Klamath River Basin Restoration Agreement for the Sustainability of Public and Trust R... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639.
SB2104	Intro Sine Die	National Park Access Act - Requires the Director of the National Park Service to refund to each state all of the funds that it used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the period in October 2013 in which there ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 638.
SB2094	Intro Sine Die	Vessel Incidental Discharge Act - Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating: (1) to establish and implement enforceable uniform national standards for the regulation of discharges incidental to the normal operatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 By Senator Rockefeller from Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation filed written report. Report No. 113-304.
SB2031	Intro Sine Die	Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act - Adjusts the boundary of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin to include the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light Addition at the end of the breakwater on Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin. Declares that Cong... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 637.
SB1971	Intro Sine Die	Nexus of Energy and Water for Sustainability Act of 2014 or NEWS Act of 2014 - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish either Committee on Energy-Water Nexus for Sustainability or the Subcommittee on Energy-W... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 636.
SB1750	Intro Sine Die	Public Access to Public Land Guarantee Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to land under their respective jurisdictions, pursuant to a state or local government offer, to enter into an agre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 635.
SB1419	Intro Sine Die	Marine and Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy Act of 2013 - Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to redefine "marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy" as energy (currently electrical energy) from: (1) waves, tides, and currents in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 634.
SB1328	Intro Sine Die	New Philadelphia, Illinois, Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the New Philadelphia archaeological site and the land surrounding it in Illinois. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress regar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 633.
SB1317	Intro Sine Die	National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2014-FY2016 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Authorizes programs, activities, and reports respecting NASA, includin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 628.
SB841	Intro Sine Die	Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act of 2013 - Designates specified federal lands in San Juan National Forest in Colorado as: (1) the Hermosa Creek Watershed and Protection Area, and (2) the Hermosa Creek Special Management Area. Requires the Secr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 632.
SB776	Intro Sine Die	Columbine-Hondo Wilderness Act - Designates specified land in Carson National Forest in New Mexico, which shall be known as the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Releases any federal land with... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 631.
SB744	Intro Sine Die	Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - (Sec. 2) States that passage of this Act recognizes that the primary tenets of its success depend on securing U.S. sovereignty and establishing a coherent and just system for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
SB398	Intro Sine Die	Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum Act - Establishes the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum. Requires the Commission to: (1) report recommendations for a plan ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 630.
SB182	Intro Sine Die	Anchorage Land Conveyance Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey, without consideration, to the city of Anchorage, Alaska, the reversionary interests of the United States in specified parcels of non-federal land in order to une... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-10 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 629.
HB5823	Intro Sine Die	Incentivizing Healthcare Quality Outcomes Act of 2014 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. in order to incentivize healthcare quality outcomes, to prescribe specific adjustment factors for incentive payments to: (1) healthcare ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
HB5817	Intro Sine Die	Amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to deem any member of the Armed Forces who died between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2005, to have died on January 1, 2006, for purposes of the eligibility of such member's su... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Veterans' Affairs Committee
HB5813	Intro Sine Die	U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Improvement Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Maritime Administration to: accept a gift of money from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation, Inc. in order to renovate Melvill... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Armed Services Committee
HB5824	Intro Sine Die	American Anti-Torture Act of 2014 - Amends the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to prohibit any person in the custody or control of the United States (under current law, persons under the custody or control of the Department of Defense [DOD] or under d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Judiciary Committee
HB5811	Intro Sine Die	Volunteer Emergency Responders Tax Deduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat firefighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, civil air patrol, and emergency rescue services rendered by a bona fide... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Ways And Means Committee
SB2990	Intro Sine Die	State Trade and Export Promotion Utilization Program for American Small Businesses Act or the STEP UP for American Small Businesses Act - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Associate Administrator for International Trade within the Small Bus... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee
SB2991	Intro Sine Die	Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2014 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee
HB5768	Intro Sine Die	Separation of Powers Act of 2014 - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to any federal department or agency to: parole an alien into the United States or grant deferred action on a final order of removal for any reaso... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security
HB5761	Intro Sine Die	Defense of Legal Workers Act of 2014 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) exclude from the definition of "unauthorized alien," with respect to the unlawful employment of aliens, any alien otherwise admitted to and lawfully p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security
HB5746	Intro Sine Die	Keeping America Safe from Ebola Act of 2014 - Defines "covered alien" as an alien: (1) who is a national or a resident of a country designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as one with widespread transmission of th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security
HB5735	Intro Sine Die	Grant Residency for Additional Doctors Act of 2014 or the GRAD Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of State to designate a Department of State officer or employee whose sole responsibility during the months of March, April, May, June, and any other p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security
HB5719	Intro Sine Die	Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2014 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because the individual has been convicted of a non-violent criminal offense, unless, at... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice
HB5711	Intro Sine Die	Amends the federal criminal code to remove the requirement that a hate crime involve conduct in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations
HB5709	Intro Sine Die	Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act of 2014 or the SISA Act - Amends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, the Iran ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations
HB5695	Intro Sine Die	Treason and Passport Revocation Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to include an organization that the Secretary of State has designated as a foreign terrorist organization as an enemy of the United States for purposes of the crime of tre... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security
SB2692	Intro Sine Die	Campus Accountability and Safety Act - Amends provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) that partic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. Hearings held.
SB2235	Intro Sine Die	Democracy Restoration Act of 2014 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless, at the time of the elect... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held.
SR413	Intro Sine Die	Recognizes the designation by the United Nations (U.N.) of April 7th as the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda. Honors the memory of the more than 800,000 victims of the Rwandan genocide. Affirms that it is in the U.S. nation... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amended preamble by Voice. (text: CR 12/10/14 S6579)
HB4320	Intro Sine Die	Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to require that no investigative hearing take place until at least 14 days after the filing of an election pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 491.
SB1945	Intro Sine Die	Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 - Amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with respect to the requirement that a federal court retain jurisdiction for an appropriate period to prevent commencement of new devices to deny or abridge the right to vote.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-12-09 Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held.