| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Pregnant Women Health and Safety Act Requires a person who performs an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local hospital and notify the patient of the location of the hospital where the patient can receive follow-up care by the person if comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | End Pay Discrimination Through Information Act Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to revise the prohibition against employer retaliation for employee complaints. Prohibits retaliation for inquiring about, discussing, or disclosing the wages ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to prohibit the provision of Federal funds to State and local governments for payment of obligations, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from financially assisting State and local governments, and for other purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to close the loophole that allowed the 9/11 hijackers to obtain credit cards from United States banks that financed their terrorist activities, to ensure that illegal immigrants cannot obtain credit cards to evade United States immigration law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to direct the General Accountability Office to conduct a full audit of hurricane protection funding and cost estimates associated with post-Katrina hurricane protection. Directs the Government Accountability Office, in coordination with the Na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2015 Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to direct agency heads not to impose civil fines for first-time paperwork violations by small businesses unless there is potential for serious harm to the public interest,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all taxpayers, including taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions, a tax deduction for expenses relating to the home schooling of their children...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Nepal Trade Preferences Act Authorizes the President to give preferential treatment to certain articles imported directly from Nepal into the U.S. customs territory if that country meets certain requirements under the African Growth and Opportunity A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Investment Savings Access After Catastrophes Act of 2015 Defines "Hurricane Isaac disaster area" for purposes of this Act as any parish or county of Louisiana or Mississippi in an area in which a major disaster has been declared before September 10, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the Coverdell education savings accounts to allow home school education expenses, and for other purposes. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) payment of home school expenses from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding School Choice Act Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to allocate school improvement grant funds among their local educational agencies (LEAs) on the basis of the number of children...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | No Budget, No Pay Act Prohibits the payment of any pay to any Member of Congress (excluding the Vice President): (1) if both houses of Congress have not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year before October 1 of that fiscal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2015 Repeals the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Revives or restores the provisions of law amended by such Act as if it had not been enacted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Safety for Our Schoolchildren Act of 2015 Requires states and local educational agencies (LEAs): (1) to obtain a Federal Bureau of Investigation background check on individuals prior to offering them employment as school employees; and (2) if the che...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Repay Act of 2015 Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a simplified income-driven repayment program for students who become new borrowers of William D. Ford Federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Notch Fairness Act of 2015 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reorganization Plan Codification and Complements Act Codifies and expands the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1980 governing administration of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Identifies as functions that remain ves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require that the Government give priority to payment of all obligations on the debt held by the public and payment of Social Security benefits in the event that the debt limit is reached. Declares that, in the event the debt of the federal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Show Your Exemption Act Requires the House of Representatives and the Senate to make publicly available the determinations of each Member of the House of Representatives and each Senator regarding the designation of their employees (including leaders...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Ending Mobile Phone Welfare Act of 2015 Prohibits a provider of commercial mobile communications service from receiving universal service support under specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 for the provision of such service through t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Red Snapper Management Improvement Act This bill gives Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (Gulf coastal states) exclusive authority to manage and conserve the red snapper in both the waters of each Gulf coastal state and the exclusiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to reduce the amount of financial assistance provided to the Government of Mexico in response to the illegal border crossings from Mexico into the United States, which serve to dissipate the political discontent with the higher unemployment ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Food Stamp Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to disqualify from the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) any person who has been found to have inten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | General Duty Clarification Act of 2015 This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise the general duty clause, which addresses the prevention of accidental releases of hazardous air substances. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must: (1) promul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Mobile Mammography Promotion Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the motor fuel excise tax fuel used in any highway vehicle designed exclusively to provide mobile mammography services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | ENFORCE the Law Act of 2015 Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments of the Law Act of 2015 Authorizes either chamber of Congress, upon adoption of a resolution declaring that the President or any officer or employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Export Growth Act of 2015 Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to revise the duties of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC). Requires the TPCC to: (1) identify opportunities to consolidate or co-locate offices of fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Forty Hours Is Full Time Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the employer mandate to provide health care coverage, to: (1) modify the formula for calculating the number of full-time employees employed by an applicable large ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2015 Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate with pharmaceu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Wildlife Trafficking Enforcement Act of 2015 This bill applies provisions of the federal criminal code concerning money laundering and racketeering to wildlife trafficking violations of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the African Elephant Conserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Defend Israel by Defunding Palestinian Foreign Aid Act of 2015 This bill prohibits any amounts from being obligated or expended to provide assistance, loan guarantees, or debt relief to the Palestinian Authority (PA), or any affiliated governing enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Scofield Land Transfer Act This bill establishes a framework to settle trespass and encroachment issues on federal land in Carbon County, Utah acquired for the Scofield Reservoir. It gives the Department of Interior authority to convey fee interest o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Copyright and Marriage Equality Act Amends federal copyright law to revise the definition of "widow" or "widower" for purposes of provisions concerning the transfer of a copyright to an author's spouse or other next of kin following the author's deat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Debt Management Act of 2015 Limits the Department of the Treasury's authority to manage the debt of the United States by using extraordinary measures to prevent the public debt limit from being exceeded. Limits Treasury's authority to suspend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to prohibit authorized committees and leadership PACs from employing the spouse or immediate family members of any candidate or Federal office holder connected to the committee. Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB26 | Intro
Sine Die | American Jobs Matter Act of 2015 Requires an executive agency to include the effects on employment within the United States (a jobs impact statement) in the evaluation factors that must be considered in each solicitation for competitive proposals for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Core Opportunity Resources for Equity and Excellence Act of 2015 Amends the school improvement program under part A of title I of the the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require states to adopt student achievement standards t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Disaster Contracting Fairness Act of 2015 Prohibits the head of an executive agency from entering into an agreement for debris removal or demolition services in connection with natural disaster reconstruction efforts unless the agreement specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical. Provides for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2015 Places restrictions on the use of cluster munitions. Directs the President, within 90 days after the use of such munitions, to submit to Congress a plan for cleaning up any such munitions or submuniti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB13 | Intro
Sine Die | Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area Act of 2015 Establishes the Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area in Utah, consisting of approximately 18,447 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, to provide for the enhancement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Our Youth from Dangerous Synthetic Drugs Act of 2015 Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include in the definition of a "controlled substance analogue" a substance designated as such by the Controlled Substance Analogue Committee (esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB16 | Intro
Sine Die | No Exemption for Washington from Obamacare Act Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to extend the requirement for participation in the American Health Benefit Exchange (a state health insurance exchange created by PPACA) to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security Lock-Box Act of 2015 Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a point of order against consideration of any: (1) budget resolution that sets forth totals for any fiscal year with respect to the Social Security Trust Fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to add a provision to exempt any employee with coverage under a health care program administered by the Department of Defense, including the TRICARE program, or by the Veterans A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB24 | Intro
Sine Die | Due Process Guarantee Act of 2015 Amends the federal criminal code to expand provisions prohibiting the United States from imprisoning or otherwise detaining a citizen except pursuant to an Act of Congress, to: (1) prohibit such imprisonment or deten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Respect for Marriage Act Amends the Defense of Marriage Act to repeal a provision that prohibited a state, territory, possession, or Indian tribe from being required to recognize any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state, terr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
