| HB4510 | Engross
Sine Die | Bolts Ditch Access and Use Act (Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to permit by special use authorization nonmotorized access and use of the Bolts Ditch headgate and the Bolts Ditch within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-07
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 617. |
| HB4202 | Engross
Sine Die | Fort Ontario Study Act (Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Interior, subject to appropriations, to conduct a special resource study of Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York, which was used as a military installation during the French and Indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3881 | Engross
Sine Die | Cooperative Management of Mineral Rights Act of 2016 This bill repeals requirements of the Mineral Leasing Act and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 regarding the development of oil and gas deposits on certain lands within the Allegheny National Forest i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3480 | Engross
Sine Die | Fort Frederica National Monument Boundary Expansion Act (Sec. 2) This bill expands the boundary of the Fort Frederica National Monument on Saint Simon Island, Georgia, and increases the maximum number of acres that may be included in the monument fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3231 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Intern Protection Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill extends protections against discrimination in the workplace based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability to interns (individuals who perform uncompensated voluntary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-07
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 616. |
| HB2832 | Engross
Sine Die | To make technical amendments to update statutory references to certain provisions classified to title 52, United States Code. This bill makes technical amendments to the U.S. Code with respect to title 52 (Voting and Elections), especially: uniformed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2830 | Engross
Sine Die | To make technical amendments to update statutory references to certain provisions classified to title 2, United States Code. (Sec. 1) This bill makes technical amendments to titles 2, 5, 39, 42, and 44 of the U.S. Code to update statutory references ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2831 | Engross
Sine Die | To make technical amendments to update statutory references to provisions classified to chapters 44, 45, 46, and 47 of title 50, United States Code. This bill makes technical amendments to statutory references to title 50 (War and National Defense) o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB5538 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 Provides FY2017 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-06
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 587. |
| HB5293 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017 TITLE I--MILITARY PERSONNEL Provides appropriations for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (the military departments), and for National Guard personnel in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-06
Second cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55 - 43. Record Vote Number: 136. (consideration: CR S5239-5240) |
| HB4539 | Engross
Sine Die | 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act (Sec. 3) This bill establishes the 400 Years of African-American History Commission to develop and carry out activities throughout the United States to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 612. |
| HB4119 | Engross
Sine Die | Gulf Islands National Seashore Land Exchange Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior, through the National Park Service, to convey to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5699 approximately 1.542 acres of real property l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 611. |
| HB3620 | Engross
Sine Die | To amend the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Improvement Act to provide access to certain vehicles serving residents of municipalities adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) This bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 610. |
| HB2880 | Engross
Sine Die | Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill redesignates the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the state of Georgia as the "Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park." The current boundar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 609. |
| HB2577 | Engross
Sine Die | Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (Sec. 3) Specifies that references to "this Act" included in any division refer only to the provisions of the division unless the bill expressly provides oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-06
Second cloture on the conference report not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 46. Record Vote Number: 135. (consideration: CR S5229-5240; text: CR S5239) |
| HB959 | Engross
Sine Die | Medgar Evers House Study Act (Sec. 3) Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the home of the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, which is located at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, Mississi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-09-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 608. |
| HB2288 | Engross
Sine Die | To remove the use restrictions on certain land transferred to Rockingham County, Virginia, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) This bill declares that the approximately one-acre portion of specified land transferred by the United States to Rockingham Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-08-30
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 585. |
| HB1289 | Engross
Sine Die | John Muir National Historic Site Expansion Act The Department of the Interior may acquire by donation approximately 44 acres of land to include in the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California. The acquired land shall be administered a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-08-30
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 584. |
| SB3282 | Engross
Sine Die | National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the National Sea Grant College Program Act to reauthorize through FY2021 the National Sea Grant College Program. The bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-19
To House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans |
| SB1935 | Engross
Sine Die | Waterfront Community Revitalization and Resiliency Act of 2015 (Sec. 4) This bill requires the Department of Commerce to designate as a resilient waterfront community a unit of local government or Indian tribe that meets specified criteria and is: bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-18
Held at the desk. |
| SB1443 | Engross
Sine Die | Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Consolidation Act of 2015 Amends the Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992 to make revisions to the program that provides for the integration of employment, trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-18
Held at the desk. |
| HB5631 | Engross
Sine Die | Iran Accountability Act of 2016 This bill prescribes requirements for mandatory sanctions with respect to: Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its agents, and persons or entities it owns; Mahan Air; Iran's support of terrorism and money launderi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-15
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. |
| HB5119 | Engross
Sine Die | No 2H2O from Iran Act (Sec. 2) This bill prohibits funds available to any federal department or agency for any fiscal year from being obligated or expended to purchase or issue a license to purchase heavy water produced in Iran.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB4992 | Engross
Sine Die | United States Financial System Protection Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill applies to transfers of funds to or from Iran, or for the direct or indirect benefit of an Iranian person or the government of Iran, for a specified period only, the existing au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4901 | Engross
Sine Die | SOAR Reauthorization Act Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Reauthorization Act (Sec. 2) This bill repeals the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program School Certification Requirements Act, as contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 564. |
| HB4487 | Engross
Sine Die | Public Buildings Reform and Savings Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill: (1) directs the General Services Administration (GSA) to establish and conduct a pilot program through 2021 to execute lease agreements using alternative procedures to reduce costs o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 563. |
| HB4470 | Engross
Sine Die | Safe Drinking Water Act Improved Compliance Awareness Act This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require public water systems to notify their customers of lead concentration levels in drinking water that exceed lead limits under national pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB4444 | Engross
Sine Die | EPS Improvement Act of 2016 This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to exclude from energy conservation standards for external power supplies any power supply circuit, driver, or device designed to power certain light-emitting diodes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4084 | Engross
Sine Die | Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to revise the objectives of the civilian nuclear energy research, development, demonstration, and commercial application programs of the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3495 | Engross
Sine Die | Women's Public Health and Safety Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify requirements regarding a state plan for medical assistance. Under current law, a state plan for medical assistance must provide t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB3460 | Engross
Sine Die | To suspend until January 21, 2017, the authority of the President to waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran. (Sec. 1) This bill proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB2646 | Engross
Sine Die | Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2016 This bill creates the position of Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders to take over the responsibilities of the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB2042 | Engross
Sine Die | Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill extends compliance deadlines for rules under the Clean Air Act that address carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants pending final judicial review. This extension applie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 569. |
| HB1734 | Engross
Sine Die | Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends subtitle D (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to establish a permit program for coal combustion residuals (coal ash) th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB1732 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulatory Integrity Protection Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw, within 30 days, the proposed rule, "Definition of 'Waters of the United States' Under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB1567 | Engross
Sine Die | Global Food Security Act of 2016 This bill requires the President to develop and implement a Global Food Security Strategy to promote global food security, resilience, and nutrition. (Sec. 2) This section specifies that it is in the U.S. national sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB1560 | Engross
Sine Die | National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015 Protecting Cyber Networks Act Short Titles as Reported to House: Protecting Cyber Networks Act TITLE I--PROTECTING CYBER NETWORKS ACT Protecting Cyber Networks Act (Sec. 102) Amends the Natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1462 | Engross
Sine Die | Protecting Our Infants Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) This bill requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to report on prenatal opioid abuse and neonatal abstinence syndrome (symptoms of withdrawal in a newborn). (An opioid is a drug with effects...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5195) |
| HB897 | Engross
Sine Die | Zika Vector Control Act This bill amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency or a state fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 570. |
| HB805 | Engross
Sine Die | DOTCOM Act of 2015 Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act of 2015 Prohibits the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information from permitting the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB304 | Engross
Sine Die | Conscience Protection Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to codify the prohibition against the federal government and state and local governments that receive federal financial assistance for health-related activities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill. |
| HB10 | Engross
Sine Die | SOAR Reauthorization Act Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Reauthorization Act (Sec. 3) This bill amends the District of Columbia Code to prohibit the Department of Education from limiting the number of eligible students receiving District of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-14
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 561. |
| HB5658 | Engross
Sine Die | TALENT Act of 2016 Tested Ability to Leverage Exceptional National Talent Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill codifies provisions establishing the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program (originally established pursuant to Executive Order 13704) to encour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5421 | Engross
Sine Die | National Securities Exchange Regulatory Parity Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Securities Act of 1933, regarding the exemption of certain securities from state regulation, to replace limitations based upon listing on specific stock exchange...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4768 | Engross
Sine Die | Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2016 This bill modifies the scope of judicial review of agency actions to authorize courts reviewing agency actions to decide de novo (without giving deference to the agency's interpretation) all relevant quest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4639 | Engross
Sine Die | Thoroughly Investigating Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 to reauthorize through FY2020 the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), an independent federal investigative and prosecutori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB3394 | Engross
Sine Die | CAPTIVE Act Clarifying Amendment to Provide Terrorism Victims Equity Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to allow a person's court-awarded judgment against a terrorist party that is based on an act of terrorism to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Received in the Senate. |
| HB1656 | Engross
Sine Die | Secret Service Improvements Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly causing an autonomous or remotely operated vehicle or dangerous weapon to enter any restricted building or grounds so that it impedes or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-13
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 560. |
| HB5639 | Engross
Sine Die | National Institute of Standards and Technology Improvement Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (NISTA) to authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB5638 | Engross
Sine Die | Solar Fuels Innovation Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by requiring the Department of Energy (DOE) to carry out the Solar Fuels Basic Research Initiative to expand scientific knowledge about converting solar energy into chemical en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
