| SB125 | Pass | Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY2020 the authorization of appropriations for the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Became Public Law No: 114-155. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB32 | Pass | Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to broaden the scope of persons subject to criminal prosecution for manufacturing or distributing a controlled substance in schedule ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-16
Became Public Law No: 114-154. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1890 | Pass | Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the federal criminal code to create a private civil cause of action for trade secret misappropriation. A trade secret owner may file a civil action in a U.S. district court seeking relief for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-11
Became Public Law No: 114-153. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1638 | Pass | Department of Homeland Security Headquarters Consolidation Accountability Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in coordination with the General Services Administration (GSA), to submit information on the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-29
Became Public Law No: 114-150. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB719 | Pass | A bill to rename the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Great Falls, Montana, the Captain John E. Moran and Captain William Wylie Galt Armed Forces Reserve Center. Designates the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Great Falls, Montana, as the "Captain John E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-29
Became Public Law No: 114-149. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2512 | Pass | Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to add Zika virus disease to the list of tropical diseases under the priority review voucher program, which awards a v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Became Public Law No: 114-146. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB483 | Pass | Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 Amends the Controlled Substances Act to define: (1) "factors as may be relevant to and consistent with the public health and safety," for purposes of the Attorney General's determinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Became Public Law No: 114-145. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB192 | Pass | Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA), with respect to the Administration on Aging, to require the Office of Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs to collect and analyze best pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Became Public Law No: 114-144. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1180 | Pass | Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to: (1) modernize the integrated U.S. public alert and warning system to h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Became Public Law No: 114-143. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2393 | Pass | Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 to extend through 2017 the one-year period after a service member's military se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
Became Public Law No: 114-142. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2426 | Pass | A bill to direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) This bill directs the Department of State to: (1) develop a strateg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
Became Public Law No: 114-139. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1826 | Pass | A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 West 2nd Street in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, as the Lieutenant Colonel James "Maggie" Megellas Post Office. Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
Became Public Law No: 114-138. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1580 | Pass | Competitive Service Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill authorizes an appointing authority (i.e., a federal agency appointing an individual to a position in the competitive service), other than the appointing authority that requested a certificate of elig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
Became Public Law No: 114-137. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1172 | Pass | Edward "Ted" Kaufman and Michael Leavitt Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 to direct the President to plan and coordinate activities to facilitate an efficient transfer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
Became Public Law No: 114-136. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1177 | Pass | Student Success Act This bill reauthorizes and amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). The bill addresses issues such as accountability and testing requirements, distribution and requirements for grants, fiscal accountabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
By Senator Alexander from Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions filed written report. Report No. 114-231. Additional views filed. |
| SB1596 | Pass | A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2082 Stringtown Road in Grove City, Ohio, as the "Specialist Joseph W. Riley Post Office Building". Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
Became Public Law No: 114-134. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB238 | Pass | Eric Williams Correctional Officer Protection Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the federal criminal code to require the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to issue oleoresin capsicum spray (i.e., pepper spray) to officers and employees who respond to emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
Became Public Law No: 114-133. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2109 | Pass | Directing Dollars to Disaster Relief Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) This bill directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to: develop and implement an integrated plan to control and reduce administrative costs incurred by FEMA in support of the deli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-29
Became Public Law No: 114-132. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2152 | Pass | Electrify Africa Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) This bill states that it is U.S. policy to partner with the governments of sub-Saharan African countries, international financial institutions, and African regional economic communities, cooperatives, and private...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
Became Public Law No: 114-121. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1629 | Pass | District of Columbia Courts, Public Defender Service, and Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the District of Columbia Code to authorize the Executive Officer of the District of Columbia courts to: collect debts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Became Public Law No: 114-118. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1115 | Pass | GONE Act Grants Oversight and New Efficiency Act (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget to instruct each agency, in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to submit to Congress and HHS by Decembe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Became Public Law No: 114-117. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB142 | Pass | Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill requires any nicotine provided in a liquid nicotine container sold, offered for sale, manufactured for sale, distributed in commerce, or imported into the United States to be packaged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-28
Became Public Law No: 114-116. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2425 | Pass | Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act (Sec. 2) This bill temporarily exempts from certain Medicare payment adjustments wheelchair accessories and seat and back cushions furnished in connection with Group 3 complex rehabilitative power wheelchair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-28
Became Public Law No: 114-115. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1461 | Pass | A bill to provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015. (Sec. 1) This bill requires the Department of Health and Hum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-18
Became Public Law No: 114-112. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1090 | Pass | Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include broadcasting facilities within the definition of a "private nonprofit facility" that provides essential servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-18
Became Public Law No: 114-111. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB808 | Pass | Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) Removes the Surface Transportation Board from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish it as an independent U.S. agency. Repeals the requirement that DOT provide administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-18
Became Public Law No: 114-110. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB614 | Pass | Federal Improper Payments Coordination Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012 to extend the availability of the Do Not Pay Initiative to states, any contractor, subcontractor, or agent of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-18
Became Public Law No: 114-109. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1170 | Pass | Breast Cancer Research Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill reauthorizes through December 31, 2019, provisions requiring the U.S. Postal Service to issue a special postage stamp for first-class mail that costs more than the regular fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-11
Became Public Law No: 114-99. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB611 | Pass | Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act (Sec. 4) This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize through FY2020 the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) program providing technical assistance to small public w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-11
Became Public Law No: 114-98. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB599 | Pass | Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to revise the length of the emergency psychiatric demonstration project under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-11
Became Public Law No: 114-97. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2036 | Pass | Equity in Government Compensation Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) This bill requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to suspend the compensation packages approved for 2015 for the chief executive officers of the Federal National Mortgage Asso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-11-25
Became Public Law No: 114-93. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1356 | Pass | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Sec. 3) Defines "congressional defense committees" as the House and Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Committees. (Sec. 4) Specifies procedures for determining the budgetary effects of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-11-25
Became Public Law No: 114-92. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB799 | Pass | Protecting Our Infants Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review its activities related to prenatal opioid use, including neonatal abstinence syndrome, and develop a strategy to address gaps i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-11-25
Became Public Law No: 114-91. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2162 | Pass | Librarian of Congress Succession Modernization Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill limits the term of the Librarian of Congress to 10 years. The individual appointed to the position may be reappointed in accordance with this requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-11-05
Became Public Law No: 114-86. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1362 | Pass | A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to clarify waiver authority regarding programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE programs). This bill amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-11-05
Became Public Law No: 114-85. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2078 | Pass | United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2015 This bill reauthorizes the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) through FY2019. (Sec. 2) It expresses the sense of Congress that USCIRF: (1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-16
Became Public Law No: 114-71. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1300 | Pass | Adoptive Family Relief Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that if an immigrant visa was issued on or after March 27, 2013, for a child who has been lawfully adopted, or who is coming to the United States to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-16
Became Public Law No: 114-70. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB986 | Pass | Albuquerque Indian School Land Transfer Act (Sec. 3) Directs the Department of the Interior to take into trust 4 tracts of federal land in New Mexico, the combined acreage of which is approximately 11.11 acres, that were historically part of the Albu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-16
Became Public Law No: 114-69. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1707 | Pass | A bill to designate the Federal building located at 617 Walnut Street in Helena, Arkansas, as the "Jacob Trieber Federal Building, United States Post Office, and United States Court House". Designates the federal building located at 617 Walnut Street...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-07
Became Public Law No: 114-67. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB994 | Pass | A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New Jersey, as the "Staff Sergeant Joseph D'Augustine Post Office Building". This bill designates the facility of the United States Po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-07
Became Public Law No: 114-66. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB565 | Pass | Federal Vehicle Repair Cost Savings Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) Defines "remanufactured vehicle component" as a vehicle component (including an engine, transmission, alternator, starter, turbocharger, steering, or suspension component) that has been returne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-07
Became Public Law No: 114-65. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB261 | Pass | A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 200 NW 4th Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as the William J. Holloway, Jr. United States Courthouse. Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 200 NW 4th Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-07
Became Public Law No: 114-64. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB136 | Pass | Gold Star Fathers Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Includes as a preference eligible for federal employment purposes a parent (currently, the mother only) of either an individual who lost his or her life under honorable conditions while serving in the Armed Forc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-07
Became Public Law No: 114-62. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB139 | Pass | Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 to repeal the sunset of, and so extend indefinitely, the exclusion from resources under titles XVI (Supplemental Security Inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-10-07
Became Public Law No: 114-63. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB2082 | Pass | Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2015 This bill extends specified Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs. TITLE I--EXTENSIONS OF AUTHORITY RELATING TO HEALTH CARE (Sec. 101) Authority for collection of copayments for h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-09-30
Became Public Law No: 114-58. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB501 | Pass | New Mexico Navajo Water Settlement Technical Corrections Act (Sec. 2) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to expand the current authorization for the construction or rehabilitation and operation and maintenance of conjunctive use we...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-09-30
Became Public Law No: 114-57. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB230 | Pass | A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation located in Bethel, Alaska. (Sec. 1) Directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey to the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-09-30
Became Public Law No: 114-56. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1359 | Pass | E-Warranty Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) Amends the Magnuson-Moss Warranty--Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act to require the Federal Trade Commission to revise its rules to allow manufacturers to satisfy requirements concerning the availability of writ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-09-24
Became Public Law No: 114-51. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB1482 | Pass | Need-Based Educational Aid Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 to extend through FY2022 the antitrust exemption that allows institutions of higher education that admit all students on a need-blind basis t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-08-06
Became Public Law No: 114-44. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB984 | Pass | Steve Gleason Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover as durable medical equipment any eye tracking and gaze interaction accessories for speech generating devices furnished to individuals with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-07-30
Became Public Law No: 114-40. (TXT | PDF) |
