| HB30 | Engross
Sine Die | Save American Workers Act of 2015 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to change the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide minimum essential health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| SB301 | Engross
Sine Die | Boys Town Centennial Commemorative Coin Act Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 50,000 $5 gold coins, 350,000 $1 silver coins, and 300,000 half-dollar clad coins to commemorate the centennial of the founding of Father Flanag... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25 Held at the desk. |
| HB216 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Veterans Affairs Budget Planning Reform Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to submit annually to Congress a Future-Years Veterans Program (Program) reflecting estimated expenditures and proposed appropri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25 To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB233 | Engross
Sine Die | Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2015 Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to annual review of low-income families' income for eligibility requirements for certain federal assisted housing programs. Prohibits, after the i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24 To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB360 | Engross
Sine Die | Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2015 TITLE I--BLOCK GRANTS AND GRANT REQUIREMENTS (Sec. 101) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) to require the De... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24 To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |
| HB1030 | Engross
Sine Die | Secret Science Reform Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978 to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from proposing, finalizing, or disseminating a cove... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19 To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB1029 | Engross
Sine Die | EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978 to revise the process of selecting members of the Science Advisory Board, guidelines for part... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18 To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB284 | Engross
Sine Die | Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Improvement Act of 2015 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the Medicare durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) competitive acquisition program... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB648 | Engross
Sine Die | Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize trauma care programs through FY2020. (Sec. 3) Grants for pilot projects of innovative models of emergency ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB647 | Engross
Sine Die | Access to Life-Saving Trauma Care for All Americans Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize grants for certain trauma centers and grants to states for trauma centers through FY2020. The categorization of certain tra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB749 | Engross
Sine Die | Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 TITLE I--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2016-FY2019 to the Secretary of Transportation for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) for: the Nort... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB280 | Engross
Sine Die | To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recoup bonuses and awards paid to employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to issue an order directing a VA employee to repay the amount, or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03 To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB294 | Engross
Sine Die | Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act (Sec. 2) Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), during the three-year period beginning on October 1, 2015, at the request of a veteran for whom the VA is required to provide nursing home care, to place ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03 To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB527 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27 Held at the desk. |
| HB734 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to replace various reporting requirements with a communications marketplace report that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB295 | Engross
Sine Die | Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) Amends the federal criminal code to expand the definition of "full amount of the victim's losses" for purposes of provisions governing mandatory restitution of victim... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB810 | Engross
Sine Die | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2015 TITLE I--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS (Sec. 101) Authorizes for FY2015 programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for: (1) space exploration, (2) spa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB527 | Engross
Sine Die | Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2015 This bill amends the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (RFA) and the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Act of 1996 (SBREFA) to revise and expand the rulemaking requirements and proce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09 To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB50 | Engross
Sine Die | Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) States as the purposes of this Act to: (1) improve the quality of the deliberations of Congress with respect to proposed federal mandates by providing Congress and the public with mo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05 To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB181 | Engross
Sine Die | Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to eligible entities to develop, improve, or expand comprehensive domestic ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-04 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB159 | Engross
Sine Die | Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to give preferential consideration in awarding Community Oriented Police Services grants to an ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-04 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB285 | Engross
Sine Die | SAVE Act of 2015 Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly: (1) advertising commercial sex acts involving a minor or an individual engaged in such an act through force, fraud,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-04 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB361 | Engross
Sine Die | Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the use of Urban Area Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program funding for enhancing medical preparedness, medical surge capacity, and m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-03 To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB351 | Engross
Sine Die | LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act (Sec. 2) Directs the Department of Energy (DOE), for proposals that must also obtain authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the United States Maritime Administration to site, const... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB350 | Engross
Sine Die | Human Trafficking Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2015 Requires the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to conduct a review that: (1) surveys federal and state activities to deter individuals from committing traffic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB398 | Engross
Sine Die | Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to award one medical or nursing school a grant to develop best practices for health care professionals to recognize and respon... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB469 | Engross
Sine Die | Strengthening Child Welfare Response to Trafficking Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to condition eligibility to receive a state grant for child abuse or neglect prevention and treatment programs on inclusion i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB246 | Engross
Sine Die | To improve the response to victims of child sex trafficking. Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to include among the required uses of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's annual grant to the National Center for Missin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-28 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB468 | Engross
Sine Die | Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act with respect to grants to states, localities, and private entities to carry out research, evaluation, demonstratio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB514 | Engross
Sine Die | Human Trafficking Prioritization Act Expresses the sense of Congress that the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of the Department of State will be more effective in carrying out duties mandated by Congress in the Trafficking Victims Protection... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB357 | Engross
Sine Die | Human Trafficking Prevention Act Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to require training for federal government personnel related to trafficking in persons to include at a minimum: a distance learning course on trafficking-in-person... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB7 | Engross
Sine Die | No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015 TITLE I--PROHIBITING FEDERALLY FUNDED ABORTIONS (Sec. 101) This bill prohibits federal funds, including funds in the budget of the District of Columbia, from being ex... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB161 | Engross
Sine Die | Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act Amends the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve or deny a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a prefiled project within 12 months after receivi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-22 Received in the Senate. |
| HB185 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulatory Accountability Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Defines "major rule" and "major guidance" for purposes of this Act as a rule or guidance that the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16 To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB37 | Engross
Sine Die | Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act TITLE I--BUSINESS RISK MITIGATION AND PRICE STABILIZATION ACT (Sec. 101) This bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from prudential rules for swap dealers and major swap... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-16 To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB3 | Engross
Sine Die | Keystone XL Pipeline Act Authorizes TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. to construct, connect, operate, and maintain the pipeline and cross-border facilities specified in an application filed by TransCanada Corporation to the Department of State on M... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-12 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 3. |