| SB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide support for Palliative Care and Hospice Education Centers. These centers mus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | National Landslide Preparedness Act This bill: (1) directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to establish a National Landslide Hazards Reduction Program to identify and understand landslide hazards and risks, reduce losses from landslides, protect co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Honor Our Commitment Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish mental and behavioral health care to individuals who: served in the active military, naval, or air service for more than 180 days and were deployed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | PLUS Act Preventing Labor Union Slowdowns Act of 2017 This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unlawful labor practice for a labor organization or its agents while representing, or seeking to represent, employees engaged in mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SCR11 | Intro
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution recognizing the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks during Women's History Month. Celebrates, during Women's History Month, the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Honors Lacks as a hero of modern medicine for contributions to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR10 | Intro
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy should name the next nuclear powered submarine of the United States Navy the "USS Los Alamos". Expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of the Navy sho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB678 | Intro
Sine Die | English Language Unity Act of 2017 This bill establishes English as the official language of the United States. Naturalization ceremonies and official functions of the U.S. government, subject to exceptions, must be conducted in English. The bill dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | National Adoption and Foster Care Home Study Act This bill amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a demonstration program through wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Cyber AIR Act Cybersecurity Standards for Aircraft to Improve Resilience Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to require domestic or foreign air carriers and manufacturers of aircraft or electronic control, communicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB674 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the retirement income account rules relating to church controlled organizations. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that a retirement income account provided by a church ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Unfunded Mandates Accountability Act of 2017 This bill revises rulemaking requirements under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) to: (1) require federal agencies to prepare and publish in the Federal Register an initial and final regulato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB682 | Intro
Sine Die | SAVINGS Act Save Access to a Valuable Investment Needed to Generate Savings Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to allow: (1) an individual taxpayer to use a portion or all of a tax refund to purchase U.S. savings bonds in pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR81 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution recognizing the 196th anniversary of the independence of Greece and celebrating democracy in Greece and the United States. Congratulates the people of Greece as they celebrate the 196th anniversary of the independence of Greece. Supports...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. |
| SB442 | Pass | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act of 2017 TITLE I--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS (Sec. 101) This bill authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for FY2017 for: exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
Became Public Law No: 115-10. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB676 | Intro
Sine Die | OIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability Act This bill codifies and revises the centralized regulatory review process, currently required under executive order, to require the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB688 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to suspend the importation of beef and poultry from Brazil. This bill suspends the importation of Brazilian beef and poultry products into the United States for 120 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Workforce Training Enhancement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Trade Act of 1974, with respect to trade adjustment assistance (TAA) for training to adversely affected workers, to authorize a state to use certain funds distributed by the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR91 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Professional Social Work Month in March 2017 and World Social Work Day on March 21, 2017. Supports the goals and ideals of National Professional Social Work Month in March 2017 and World Social...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Savings for Servicemembers Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from 100 miles to 50 miles the distance from home requirement for the tax deduction for the travel expenses of a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Invest in Women's Health Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide support to public or nonprofit entities to expand certain preventive health services, with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB672 | Intro
Sine Die | North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the government of North Korea should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism. The Department of State shall submit to Congress a deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SR90 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution recognizing the importance of the United States-Israel economic relationship and encouraging new areas of cooperation. Affirms that the U.S.-Israel economic partnership has benefitted both countries and is a foundational component of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to categorize certain hearing aids as over-the-counter hearing aids and issue regulations regarding t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Agriculture Students EARN Act Agriculture Students Encourage, Acknowledge, Reward, Nurture Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of a student farmer up to $5,000 of the gain from the sale or exchange of perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB680 | Intro
Sine Die | SPY Car Act of 2017 Security and Privacy in Your Car Act of 2017 This bill directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to conduct a rulemaking to issue motor vehicle cybersecurity regulations that require motor vehicles manufac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SR9 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution honoring in praise and remembrance the extraordinary life, steady leadership, and remarkable, 70-year reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Honors the life, leadership, and 70-year reign of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. |
| SB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Native American Indian Education Act This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow the Department of Education, for FY2018-FY2022, to pay Native American-serving, nontribal institutions of higher education the tuition of their out-of-sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR87 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate concerning the ongoing conflict in Syria as it reaches its six-year mark in March, the ensuing humanitarian crisis in Syria and neighboring countries, the resulting humanitarian and national security ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB630 | Intro
Sine Die | Keeping Our Promise to Our Afghan Allies Act This bill amends the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 to increase from 8,500 to 11,000 the total number of visas available for the Afghan special immigrant visa program. Such program is for Afghan tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR83 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the trafficking of illicit fentanyl into the United States from Mexico and China. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: the use of illicit fentanyl in the United States and the resulting ove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. |
| SB649 | Intro
Sine Die | Cameras in the Courtroom Act This bill requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | CREATE Act of 2017 Comprehensive Resources for Entrepreneurs in the Arts to Transform the Economy Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) set forth new tax rules for the deduction of charitable contributions of literary, musica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Unleashing American Energy Act of 2017 This bill amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to conduct additional lease sales under an approved five-year oil and gas leasing program. Additional lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB634 | Intro
Sine Die | REG Act Reducing Excessive Government Act of 2017 This bill requires Congress, within 60 days after the debt limit is increased or suspended, to enact legislation eliminating rules that results in a reduction of the direct cost of federal regulation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish a report at least every 10 years that contains physical activity recommendations for the general public based on the most cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Healthy Families Act This bill requires certain employers, who employ 15 or more employees for each working day during 20 or more workweeks a year, to permit each employee to earn at least 1 hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. The bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 2017 This bill amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to direct the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish procedures to ensure that the integration of unmanned aircraft (drone) sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB637 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating Transparency to Have Drug Rebates Unlocked (C-THRU) Act of 2017 This bill amends title XI (General Provisions) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to require the public disclosure of certain information provided to the Department of Health an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Jury ACCESS Act Jury Access for Capable Citizens and Equality in Service Selection Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal judicial code to prohibit the exclusion of citizens from service as a grand or petit juror in U.S. district courts or the Cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR89 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution supporting the designation of March 2017 as "National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month". Expresses support for the designation of March 2017 as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1849; text as passed Senate: CR 3/21/2017 S1897) |
| SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal judicial code to: convert certain temporary bankruptcy judges to permanent bankruptcy judges and authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges in Delaware and Michigan; convert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Computer Science Career Education Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Education to award competitive grants to consortia composed of at least one local educational agency, at least one institution of higher education (IHE), and community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Contractor Accountability and Transparency Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to require the posting online of any contract, subcontract, purchase order, task order, or delivery order for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to nullify the effect of the recent Executive order regarding border security and immigration enforcement. This bill rescinds Executive Order 13767, entitled "Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements," effective as of January 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB653 | Intro
Sine Die | Career and Technical Education State Flexibility Act This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to revise maintenance of effort requirements for a state to receive fiscal year career and technical education (CTE) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting More American Manufacturing Jobs Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify rules for applying the deduction for income from domestic production activities to contract manufacturing or production arrangements. In a contract m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Choice Program Resolution Act This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to direct the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to select from among employees of the Office of Inspector G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB639 | Intro
Sine Die | HOME Act Housing Opportunities Made Easier Act This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to deem mortgage appraisal services donated by a fee appraiser to an organization that is eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions to be custo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SR88 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President and the Secretary of State should ensure that the Government of Canada does not permanently store nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | South China Sea and East China Sea Sanctions Act of 2017 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the United States opposes actions by the government of any country to interfere in the free use of waters and airspace in the South China Sea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
