| HB3779 | Engross
Sine Die | Social Security Fraud Prevention Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill prohibits federal departments and agencies from including the Social Security account number of any individual on any document sent by mail unless the department or agency head determine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB3537 | Engross
Sine Die | Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to add certain synthetic opioids, hallucinogens, and cannabinoids to schedule I. (A schedule I controlled substance is a drug, substance, or chemical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB3216 | Engross
Sine Die | VET Act Veterans Emergency Treatment Act (Sec. 1) This bill declares that, if a veteran who is enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care program requests a medical examination or treatment at an emergency department of a VA medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB1877 | Engross
Sine Die | Mental Health First Aid Act of 2016 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend through FY2021 training grants for mental health awareness. The bill makes additional categories of individuals eligible to be trained to identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-27
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB6004 | Engross
Sine Die | MGT Act Modernizing Government Technology Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill establishes in each covered agency (specified agencies for which there are Chief Financial Officers) an information technology system modernization and working capital fund whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5931 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act (Sec. 3) This bill declares that it shall be U.S. policy not to pay ransom or release prisoners for the purpose of securing the release of U.S. citizens taken hostage abroad. (Sec. 4) The U.S. government...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5719 | Engross
Sine Die | Empowering Employees through Stock Ownership Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employee to elect to defer, for income tax purposes, income attributable to certain stock transferred to the employee by an employer. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5625 | Engross
Sine Die | Modernizing Government Travel Act (Sec. 2) This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to prescribe regulations to provide for the reimbursement of federal employees traveling on official business for the use of a transportation netw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5523 | Engross
Sine Die | Clyde-Hirsch-Sowers RESPECT Act Restraining Excessive Seizure of Property through the Exploitation of Civil Asset Forfeiture Tools Act This bill revises the authority and procedures that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) uses to seize property that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5320 | Engross
Sine Die | Social Security Must Avert Identity Loss (MAIL) Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to direct the Social Security Administration to ensure that no document it sends b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB5037 | Engross
Sine Die | District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the District of Columbia Code to authorize the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration to establish a voluntary separatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4755 | Engross
Sine Die | Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act (Sec. 3) This bill directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to encourage women and girls to study science, technology, engineering, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 644. |
| HB4742 | Engross
Sine Die | Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to authorize the National Science Foundation to encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 643. |
| HB4564 | Engross
Sine Die | Robert Emmet Park Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill redesignates as "Robert Emmet Park" the small triangular property located at the corner of 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, DC, and designated by the National Park Service as rese...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
Received in the Senate. |
| HB2285 | Engross
Sine Die | Prevent Trafficking in Cultural Property Act Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enhance and unify their efforts to interdict, detain, seize, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1296 | Engross
Sine Die | To amend the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement Act to clarify certain settlement terms, and for other purposes. This bill amends the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement Act to approve and ratify all provisions of the settlement agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-26
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5977 | Engross
Sine Die | To direct the Secretary of Transportation to provide to the appropriate committees of Congress advance notice of certain announcements, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to give Congress three f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5859 | Engross
Sine Die | Community Counterterrorism Preparedness Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to carry out a grant program for emergency response providers to prevent, prepare for, and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5708 | Engross
Sine Die | Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill states that is U.S. policy to support: (1) the rule of law and an independent judiciary and electoral council in Nicaragua; (2) independent pro-democracy organizations in Nica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5713 | Engross
Sine Die | Sustaining Healthcare Integrity and Fair Treatment Act of 2016 This bill amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, among other Acts, to modify provisions related to long-term care hospital (LTCH) payments under Med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB5690 | Engross
Sine Die | GAO Access and Oversight Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to obtain federal agency records required to discharge the GAO's duties (including audit, evaluation, and investigative duties), including t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 640. |
| HB5659 | Engross
Sine Die | ESRD Choice Act of 2016 Expanding Seniors Receiving Dialysis Choice Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow individuals with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) to be eligible for Medicare Advantage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB5613 | Engross
Sine Die | CAH Act of 2016 Continuing Access to Hospitals Act of 2016 This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to continue to instruct Medicare contractors not to enforce requirements for direct physician supervision of outpatient therape...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB5461 | Engross
Sine Die | Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency Act (Sec. 3) This bill requires the Department of the Treasury, in furtherance of efforts to prevent the financing of terrorism, money laundering, or related illicit finance and to make financial institutions' re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB5094 | Engross
Sine Die | STAND for Ukraine Act Stability and Democracy for Ukraine Act This bill provides that no federal agency should take any action or extend any assistance that recognizes Russian sovereignty over Crimea, its airspace, or its territorial waters. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5064 | Engross
Sine Die | Improving Small Business Cyber Security Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to small business development centers (SBDCs) in furtherance of a Small Business ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
Received in the Senate. |
| HB4712 | Engross
Sine Die | Strengthening the Department of Homeland Security Secure Mail Initiative Act (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to provide an option under the Secure Mail Initiative under which, for payment of a fee recouping costs, a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB3957 | Engross
Sine Die | Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a full deduction in the current taxable year of the cost of replanting lost or damaged citrus plants. The taxpayer must own an equity interest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
Received in the Senate. |
| HB3924 | Engross
Sine Die | Global Development Lab Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill establishes in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the United States Global Development Lab, the duties of which shall include: increasing the application of science, technology,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB3438 | Engross
Sine Die | REVIEW Act of 2016 Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill prohibits a final agency rule from being published or taking effect until the agency submits the rule to the Office of Information and Regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB2315 | Engross
Sine Die | Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2015 (Sec.2) This bill prohibits the wages or other remuneration earned by an employee who performs employment duties in more than one state from being subject to income tax in any state other t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
Received in the Senate. |
| HB2009 | Engross
Sine Die | Pascua Yaqui Tribe Land Conveyance Act (Sec. 3) This bill declares that 39.65 acres of land are to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, effective the day after the Tuscon Unified School District ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. |
| HB1838 | Engross
Sine Die | Clear Creek National Recreation Area and Conservation Act (Sec. 3) This bill establishes the Clear Creek National Recreation Area in California to promote environmentally responsible off-highway vehicle recreation and support other public recreationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-22
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. |
| HB5957 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Aviation Administration Veteran Transition Improvement Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill applies federal civil service requirements to leave used by disabled armed forces veterans in the personnel management system of the Federal Aviation Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-21
Received in the Senate. |
| HB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Special Needs Trust Fairness and Medicaid Improvement Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to the treatment of revocable trusts for the benefit of an individual for purposes of meeting income requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB5447 | Engross
Sine Die | Small Business Health Care Relief Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and other laws to exempt qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-19
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. |
| SB2848 | Engross
Sine Die | Water Resources Development Act of 2016 TITLE I--PROGRAM REFORMS (Sec. 1001) This bill amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA 1986) to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide technical assistance to nonfederal interests fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-19
Held at the desk. |
| HB4843 | Engross
Sine Die | Infant Plan of Safe Care Improvement Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the national clearinghouse for information relating to child abuse, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-19
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. |
| HB4583 | Engross
Sine Die | To promote a 21st century energy and manufacturing workforce. This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to prioritize education and training for energy and manufacturing-related jobs in order to increase the number of skilled workers trained t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-19
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. |
| HB2647 | Engross
Sine Die | Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 TITLE I--MAJOR DISASTER FOR WILDFIRE ON FEDERAL LAND (Sec. 101) The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act is amended to define "major disaster for wildfire on federal lands" to mean any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-19
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 634. |
| HB5620 | Engross
Sine Die | VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2016 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to remove or demote a VA employee based on performance or misconduct and provides that specified federal employee performance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-15
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB5351 | Engross
Sine Die | To prohibit the transfer of any individual detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Sec. 1) This bill prohibits U.S. agency funds from being used until the earlier of the enactment date of an Act authorizing FY2017 appropriatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-15
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5226 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulatory Integrity Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill directs each executive agency to make publicly available on the agency website or in the rule making docket on Regulations.gov a list of pending agency regulatory actions and for each such action: t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-15
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5587 | Engross
Sine Die | Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2022 the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, divides career and technical education (CTE) students into CTE concentrators a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-14
Received in the Senate. |
| HCR131 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the District of Columbia Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run. Authorizes the use of the Capitol grounds for the 31st annual District of Columbia Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run on Septe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-14
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB3590 | Engross
Sine Die | Halt Tax Increases on the Middle Class and Seniors Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to roll back the increased threshold for determining the amount of the tax deduction for medical expenses. Currently, individual taxpayers unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-14
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5484 | Engross
Sine Die | State Sponsors of Terrorism Review Enhancement Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Arms Export Control Act, and the Export Administration Act of 1979, with respect to the rescission of a determination of a country as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-13
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5104 | Engross
Sine Die | BOTS Act Better On-line Ticket Sales Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the sale of computer software that: (1) is primarily designed to circumvent technology that limits purchases made via an online ticket selling system, (2) has only a limite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-13
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB4979 | Engross
Sine Die | Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016 This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to enter into a memorandum of understanding to: ensure that DOE has sufficient technical expertise to su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-13
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4576 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act This bill authorizes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to promulgate regulations to implement U.S. participation in the North Pacific Fisheries Convention and South Pacific Fisheries C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-13
Received in the Senate. |
