| HB6094 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulatory Relief for Small Businesses, Schools, and Nonprofits Act (Sec. 2) This bill postpones from December 1, 2016, until June 1, 2017, the effective date of a final rule of the Department of Labor (81 Fed. Reg. 32552 [May 23, 2016]) revising inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 662. |
| HB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Improving Access to Maternity Care Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Health Resources and Services Administration to designate maternity care health professional shortage areas and review these designations at least an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB2713 | Engross
Sine Die | Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2016 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to extend through FY2020 nursing programs, including programs for advanced education nursing, loan repayment and scholarships for nurses, loans fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB985 | Engross
Sine Die | Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2015 (Sec. 4) This bill directs the Department of Commerce to issue orders applicable to manufacturers of concrete masonry products. An order regarding the generic research, educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Received in the Senate. |
| HB6318 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Pay for Presidential Protection Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SB2 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to authorize the award of the Medal of Honor to James C. McCloughan for acts of valor during the Vietnam War. This bill authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to James C. McCloughan for acts of valor during the Vietnam War for wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB6322 | Intro
Sine Die | Norman Yoshio Mineta Congressional Gold Medal Act This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal to Norman Yoshio Mineta in recog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | CORE Act Creating Opportunities for Rural Economic Expansion Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require at least 5% of the new markets tax credit limitation to be allocated to community development entities in connection with certain i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB6317 | Intro
Sine Die | Veteran Mental Health Care Expansion Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB5718 | Intro
Sine Die | Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area Act This bill establishes the Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area in Utah, comprising approximately 79,109 acres of federal land in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
| SB1490 | Intro
Sine Die | Seniors Fraud Prevention Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to establish an office within the Bureau of Consumer Protection to advise the FTC on the prevention of fraud targeting seniors and to assist the FTC in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 663. |
| HB2669 | Engross
Sine Die | Anti-Spoofing Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to expand the prohibition against knowingly transmitting misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to apply to: (1) persons outside the United States ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB4365 | Engross
Sine Die | Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration to register an emergency medical services (EMS) agency as an entity authorized to dispense con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Received in the Senate. |
| HB1192 | Engross
Sine Die | National Clinical Care Commission Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the National Clinical Care Commission to evaluate and recommend solutions regarding be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB3464 | Intro
Sine Die | Overtime Reform and Review Act This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) with respect to exemptions from minimum wage and maximum hour requirements for executive, administrative, professional and outside sales employees to increase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 661. |
| HB1484 | Intro
Sine Die | Honor the Nevada Enabling Act of 1864 Act Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior to convey, in phases and without consideration, to the state of Nevada all interest of the United States in federal lands owned,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
| SB2959 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund. (Sec. 1) This bill amends the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
To House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans |
| HB866 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015 This bill permits a state that has an established leasing, permitting, and regulatory program to: (1) declare to the Secretaries of the Interior, of Agriculture, and of Energy that it has either established or amended...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
| SB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Dine College Act of 2016 (Sec. 5) This bill requires the Department of the Interior to conduct a survey and study of all capital projects and facility needs of Dine College, a tribal community college in the Navajo Nation in Arizona. Interior must re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 666. |
| SB3088 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to provide a deadline for compliance with an alternate safety compliance program and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 665. |
| SB2219 | Intro
Sine Die | Outdoor Recreation Jobs and Economic Impact Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Commerce to enter into a joint memorandum with the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior to conduct, acting through the Bureau...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 664. |
| HB6298 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Israel Against Economic Discrimination Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB6314 | Intro
Sine Die | Commission on the Removal of Mexican-Americans to Mexico Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB6300 | Intro
Sine Die | Unaffordable Care Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the requirement to maintain minimum essential health coverage an individual who: (1) resides in a location with fewer than two qualified health plans offered through an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB6308 | Intro
Sine Die | Afghanistan Accountability Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB6311 | Intro
Sine Die | National Opportunity for Lead Exposure Accountability and Deterrence Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB6299 | Intro
Sine Die | American Food for American Schools Act of 2016 This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require school food authorities (SFAs) to request a waiver from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to purchase foreign commodities o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| SB2360 | Engross
Sine Die | Omnibus Territories Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1982, to eliminate the restriction on the use of resettlement and relocation funds by people of the Bikini Atoll for resettlement and relocation to areas o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Held at the desk. |
| HB2532 | Intro
Sine Die | Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill expands the cash awards program for disclosures by federal employees of fraud, waste, or mismanagement that result in cost savings to the employee's agency to include identification of surplus s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 646. |
| HB4937 | Intro
Sine Die | PIPES Act of 2016 Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill reauthorizes through FY2019 the gas and hazardous liquid pipeline and related programs of the Department of Transportation (DOT), includi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 631. |
| HB5715 | Intro
Sine Die | No Ex-Im Assistance for Terrorism Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Export-Import Bank from guaranteeing, insuring, extending credit, or participating in the extension of credit in connection with the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 642. |
| HB5984 | Intro
Sine Die | Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights Settlement Act (Sec. 4) This bill authorizes, ratifies, and confirms the Pechanga Settlement Agreement, entered into by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, the Rancho California Water Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 644. |
| HB5341 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for recalculation of basic annuity benefits for certain air traffic controllers, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) This bill: (1) provides that calculation of the basic annuity benefits for an air traff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 645. |
| HB2333 | Intro
Sine Die | To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain property related to the Fort Scott National Historic Site in Fort Scott, Kansas. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to acquire the structure known as "Lunette Bla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 643. |
| HB5428 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Residency Choice Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit the spouse of a servicemember to elect to use the same residence as the servicemember for purposes of taxation and voting, regardless of the date on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-11-14
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 640. |
| SB2418 | Intro
Sine Die | Countering Online Recruitment of Violent Extremists Act of 2016 This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require that the criteria for the designation of colleges or universities as a center for homeland security include demonstrated exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-27
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 655. |
| SB1526 | Intro
Sine Die | Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the design-build selection procedures used by federal agencies soliciting offers to enter into civilian contracts for the design and construction of a public build...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-27
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 656. |
| SB1916 | Intro
Sine Die | Rural Health Care Connectivity Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to include skilled nursing facilities among the types of health care providers that may request from a telecommunications carrier under the Universal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-27
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 659. |
| SB1717 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend title 46, United States Code, to exempt old vessels that only operate within inland waterways from the fire-retardant materials requirement if the owners of such vessels make annual structural alterations to at least 10 percent of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-27
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 658. |
| SB1551 | Intro
Sine Die | DOTCOM Act of 2015 Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information from permitting the National Telecommunications and Information Adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-27
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 657. |
| HB6256 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide temporary visitation to spouses of United States citizens. This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a non-immigrant W-visa category for an alien who: (1) is, and has been for at least 180 days, the spouse of a U.S....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB6279 | Intro
Sine Die | Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2016 This bill allows a beneficiary of a Holocaust-era life, dowry, education, annuity, property, or other insurance policy to bring a civil action in a U.S. district court against the insurer for the covered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB6243 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive Fentanyl Control Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6285 | Intro
Sine Die | Canadian Snowbird Visa Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to admit into the United States as a nonimmigrant visitor for a period not to exceed 240 days during any single 365-day p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB6268 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing Gangs and Recidivism Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6292 | Intro
Sine Die | Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6283 | Intro
Sine Die | Truth in Regulations Act of 2016 This bill requires each executive agency to: (1) have written procedures for the approval of significant guidance documents by each appropriate senior agency official; and (2) maintain on its website a list of, links ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HB6293 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair SHARE Act of 2016 Fair Salary History Alternatives for Responsible Employment Act of 2016 This bill makes it an unlawful employment practice for certain employers to seek information concerning a job applicant's salary history. An exception is e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB6252 | Intro
Sine Die | Ending Sanctuary Cities Act of 2016 This bill provides that a state or local government is an ineligible jurisdiction if it: (1) restricts any government entity or official from sending to or receiving from the Immigration and Naturalization Service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB6096 | Intro
Sine Die | Arla Harrell Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reconsider and make a new determination regarding each claim for disability compensation in connection with exposure to mustard gas or lewisite during active military, nav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
