| HB4820 | Engross
Sine Die | Combating Terrorist Recruitment Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to incorporate the public statements of former violent extremists or their associates into its efforts to combat terrorist recruitment, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-27
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4890 | Engross
Sine Die | To impose a ban on the payment of bonuses to employees of the Internal Revenue Service until the Secretary of the Treasury develops and implements a comprehensive customer service strategy. (Sec. 1) This bill prohibits the Department of the Treasury ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1206 | Engross
Sine Die | No Hires for the Delinquent IRS Act (Sec. 2) This bill prohibits any federal officer or employee from hiring any Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees until the IRS submits to Congress either: (1) a written certification that the IRS does not empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-25
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 434. |
| HB3724 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from rehiring any individual who was previously employed by the IRS but was removed for misconduct ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB4885 | Engross
Sine Die | IRS Oversight While Eliminating Spending (OWES) Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service to deposit fees for services in the general fund of the Treasury and prohibits the expenditure of such fees unless an appropriations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-25
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 435. |
| HB2666 | Engross
Sine Die | No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act t (Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from regulating the rates charged for broadband Internet access service. (Sec. 3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-21
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 431. |
| HB4332 | Engross
Sine Die | Maximizing Small Business Competition Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Small Business Act to authorize a procurement center representative to review any solicitation for a contract or task order without regard to whether: it is set aside for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB4325 | Engross
Sine Die | Unifying Small Business Terminology Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Small Business Act to revise the range of the anticipated value of federal procurement contracts that must be reserved exclusively for small businesses. The range shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB4326 | Engross
Sine Die | Small and Disadvantaged Business Enhancement Act of 2016 ( Sec. 2) This bill amends the Small Business Act to allow for the management of each Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) to be vested in an individual whose primary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB3714 | Engross
Sine Die | Small Agriculture Producer Size Standards Improvements Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Small Business Act to specify that the agricultural enterprises it covers are small business concerns. (Sec. 3) The Act shall cover any small farm regard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB4284 | Engross
Sine Die | Service Provider Opportunity Clarification Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue regulations providing examples of activities that would be considered a failure to make a good faith effort to comply ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB4903 | Engross
Sine Die | To prohibit the use of funds by the Internal Revenue Service to target citizens of the United States for exercising any right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (Sec. 1) This bill prohibits the Internal Rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB4570 | Engross
Sine Die | 100 Years of Women in Congress Act (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to designate as Jeannette Rankin Women and Minorities in STEM Fields Program Grants the current research and extension grants to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| HB3340 | Engross
Sine Die | Financial Stability Oversight Council Reform Act This bill amends the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to make the budgets of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) and the Office of Financial Research (OFR) subject to the annual appropriati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB1436 | Engross
Sine Die | Nevada Native Nations Land Act (Sec. 3) This bill requires the United States to hold in trust the following lands for the benefit of: the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, 19,094 acres of Bureau of Lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-15
Held at the desk. |
| HB4549 | Engross
Sine Die | Treating Small Airports with Fairness Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to conduct, and provide all necessary staff and equipment for, security screening at any airport that lost commercial air s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-14
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HCR117 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the National Peace Officers Memorial Service and the National Honor Guard and Pipe Band Exhibition. Permits the Grand Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police and its auxiliary to sponsor a free public eve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-14
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB4403 | Engross
Sine Die | Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act (Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of State to: develop open-source software based on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's global travel targeting and ana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-14
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB3586 | Engross
Sine Die | Border and Maritime Coordination Improvement Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) an Immigration Cooperation Program, under which CBP officers may cooperate with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-14
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4482 | Engross
Sine Die | Southwest Border Security Threat Assessment Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit a southwest border threat analysis that includes an assessment of: terrorism and criminal threats posed by individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-14
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HCR120 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the 3rd Annual Fallen Firefighters Congressional Flag Presentation Ceremony. Permits the Congressional Fire Services Institute and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to sponsor the 3rd Annual Fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-14
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HCR115 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for an event to celebrate the birthday of King Kamehameha I. Authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for an event on May 22, 2016, to celebrate the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-14
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB4509 | Engross
Sine Die | State and High-Risk Urban Area Working Group Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require any state or high-risk urban area receiving a grant under the State Homeland Security Grant Program or the Urban Area Security Ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-14
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4676 | Engross
Sine Die | Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the federal criminal code to declare that any person who knowingly engages in any scheme or artifice to defraud an individual of veterans' benefits, or in connection with obtain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2947 | Engross
Sine Die | Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends federal bankruptcy law with respect to a "covered financial corporation" incorporated or organized under any federal or state law (other than a stockbroker, a commodity broker, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB4472 | Engross
Sine Die | Modernizing the Interstate Placement of Children in Foster Care Act (Sec. 3) This bill amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the procedures a state must have in effect for the orderly an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2857 | Engross
Sine Die | To facilitate the addition of park administration at the Coltsville National Historical Park, and for other purposes. (Sec. 1) This bill revises a condition for establishment of the Coltsville National Historical Park in Connecticut to require the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4314 | Engross
Sine Die | Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the U.S. government must ensure that capacity-building assistance to combat terrorist travel is coordinated among departments and agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB2745 | Engross
Sine Die | Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Clayton Act with respect to notice to a state by the Department of Justice (DOJ) about federal actions brought for violations of antitrust laws. Cur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR34 | Engross
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution providing for an adjournment of the House of Representatives. Declares that when the House adjourns on any legislative day from Wednesday, March 23, 2016, through Friday, April 8, 2016, it stand adjourned until 3:30 p.m. on Mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HCR111 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony as part of the commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust. Authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on May 5,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB1949 | Engross
Sine Die | National Liberty Memorial Clarification Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 with respect to submission of site and design proposals by the National Mall Liberty Fund D.C. (sponsor) fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. |
| HB4416 | Engross
Sine Die | To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend by six years the time period during which Fairlawn Hydroelectric Company is re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4434 | Engross
Sine Die | To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon the request of the licensee for FERC project numbered 13287 (Cannonsville Hydroele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB3371 | Engross
Sine Die | Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Georgia to include approximately eight acres identified as Wallis House and Har...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. |
| HB4596 | Engross
Sine Die | Small Business Broadband Deployment Act (Sec. 2) This bill exempts for five years any small business broadband Internet access service provider with no more than 250,000 subscribers from the enhancements to the transparency rule of the Federal Commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB3797 | Engross
Sine Die | SENSE Act Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB2081 | Engross
Sine Die | To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving the Gibson Dam. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend by six years the time period during which Gibson Dam Hydroel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 395. |
| HB3447 | Engross
Sine Die | To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend by six years the time period during which Wilkesboro Hydroelectric Company is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 396. |
| HB3572 | Engross
Sine Die | DHS Headquarters Reform and Improvement Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This section requires this Act to be carried out using available amounts, without the authorization of additional funds. TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HEADQUARTERS REAUTHORIZATIO...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. |
| HB4412 | Engross
Sine Die | To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend by six years the time period during which Jordan Hydroelectric Limited Partner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4411 | Engross
Sine Die | To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend by six years the time period during which Jordan Hydroelectric Limited Partner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB4427 | Engross
Sine Die | To amend section 203 of the Federal Power Act. This bill amends the Federal Power Act with respect to the prohibition regarding mergers or consolidations by a public utility. Any merger or consolidation of a public utility whose value exceeds $10 mil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2984 | Engross
Sine Die | Fair RATES Act Fair Ratepayer Accountability, Transparency, and Efficiency Standards Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Federal Power Act to permit a party to seek a rehearing and subsequent judicial review of any rate change filed by a public utility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HCR121 | Engross
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the Congress condemning the gross violations of international law amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Government of Syria, its allies, and other parties to the conflict in Syria, and asking the President...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB1268 | Engross
Sine Die | Energy Efficient Government Technology Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to require each federal agency to coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB2080 | Engross
Sine Die | To reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving Clark Canyon Dam. (Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reinstate the construction license granted to Clark...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 392. |
| HCR75 | Engross
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of Congress that those who commit or support atrocities against Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities, including Yezidis, Turkmen, Sabea-Mandeans, Kaka'e, and Kurds, and who target them specifically for ethnic or r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HCR113 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal collectively to the 65th Infantry Regiment, known as the "Borinqueneers". Authorizes Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visito...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-09
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB2843 | Engross
Sine Die | TSA PreCheck Expansion Act (Sec. 3) This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to continue to administer the Precheck Program (trusted traveler program). (Sec. 4) TSA shall publish application enrollment standards that add mul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-07
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 383. |
