| HB5881 | Intro
Sine Die | Securing American Families Everywhere (SAFE Kids) Act - Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress on: (1) the extent of adoption disruption and dissolution in the United States and efforts by state and local governments and private ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB5878 | Intro
Sine Die | Shahbaz Bhatti International Religious Freedom Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5852 | Intro
Sine Die | Scrap the Cap Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the cap ($117,000 in 2014) on income that is subject to employment and self-employment taxes used to fund social security benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5860 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Healthcare Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat employer payments for employee health care premiums and for amounts paid on behalf of an employee to a health reimbursement arrangement as medical expenses under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB3006 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use the Secretary's existing authority to furnish health care to veterans at non-VA facilities to provide health care at non-VA facilities to veterans who reside more than 40 miles driving distance fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5855 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to report to Congress regarding how sole source suppliers of components to the DOD procurement supply chain create vulnerabilities to military attack, terrorism, natural disaster, industrial shock, financial cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Armed Services Committee |
| HB5874 | Intro
Sine Die | Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB5656 | Engross
Sine Die | Global Food Security Act of 2014 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, in providing assistance to implement the Global Food Security Strategy, should: coordinate federal efforts to implement the Strategy, utilize open and streaml...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5871 | Intro
Sine Die | Dollar is a Dollar Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions allowing a lower income tax rate for capital gains income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB5873 | Intro
Sine Die | Gas Tax Replacement Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuels; (2) add a carbon dioxide equivalent rate to the tax on crude oil and petroleum products; and (3) impose an new excise tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| SB3005 | Intro
Sine Die | Progressive Consumption Tax Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB5879 | Intro
Sine Die | Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections for Separated Children Act or the HELP Separated Children Act - Sets forth apprehension procedures for immigration enforcement-related activities engaged in by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and coo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB5856 | Intro
Sine Die | No Armed Drones for DHS Act - Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from purchasing, operating, or maintaining armed unmanned aerial vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Homeland Security Committee |
| 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. |
| HB4573 | Engross
Sine Die | International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking - (Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish within the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the Ang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 645. |
| SB2785 | Engross
Sine Die | Safe and Secure Drinking Water Protection Act of 2014 - Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and publish within 180 days a health advisory including recommendations on: (1) the level of microcystins (toxins produced by freshw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| HB5548 | Intro
Sine Die | Consortia-Led Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Networks Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Energy |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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). |
| HB5826 | Intro
Sine Die | Water Quality Investment Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| HB5810 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the United States Cotton Futures Act to exclude cotton future contracts involving cotton that is grown outside of the United States and tendered for delivery from coverage under the Act, including the requirement that the cotton be classified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Received in the Senate. |
| SB2996 | Intro
Sine Die | PATH Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| SB2614 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, with respect to rollovers to a traditional or Roth individual retirement account (IRA) of payments to qualified airline employees in commercial airline carrier bankruptcy cases, to: (1) extend the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Held at the desk. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB5840 | Intro
Sine Die | School Protection Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB5845 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Education And The Workforce 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 |
| HB5827 | Intro
Sine Die | Christmas Tree Tax Exclusion Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To House Agriculture Committee |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| HB5086 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the Chief Standing Bear Trail extending approximately 550 miles from Ponca City, Oklahoma, thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| 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. |
