| SB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the presiding judge of a U.S. appellate court or U.S. district court to permit the photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting, or televising to the public of court proceedings over whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | American Cures Act This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require certain adjustments to discretionary spending limits in FY2017-FY2021 to accommodate increases in appropriations for agencies that perform bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Illegal Synthetic Drug Safety Act of 2017 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to modify the treatment of controlled substance analogues (i.e., substances that have substantially similar chemical structures and pharmacological effects to sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | FAIR Act Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act of 2017 This bill modifies general rules governing civil forfeiture proceedings to: (1) ensure that a person contesting a civil forfeiture has legal representation without regard to whether the prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB641 | Intro
Sine Die | American Innovation Act This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require certain adjustments to discretionary spending limits in FY2017-FY2021 to accommodate increases in appropriations for agencies that perfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to extend specified whistle-blower protections to employees of congressional offices and committees, the Office of Congressional Accessib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the credit for production from advanced nuclear power facilities. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for the production of electricity from advanced n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Justice for Servicemembers and Veterans Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to initiate an action for relief in a service member's employment or reemployment rights action with respect to: (1) a private or state employer,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act This bill makes reserve component members who are deployed to support pre-planned operations of a combatant command eligible for: (1) pre-mobilization health care, (2) transitional health care, (3) consideration ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SCR9 | Intro
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution recognizing the George C. Marshall Museum and George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Virginia, as the National George C. Marshall Museum and Library. Recognizes the George C. Marshall Museum and George C. Marshall R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security Disability Insurance Return to Work Act of 2017
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandatory Arbitration Transparency Act of 2017 This bill prohibits predispute arbitration agreements from containing a confidentiality clause regarding an employment, consumer, or civil rights dispute that could be interpreted to prohibit a party fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Future Logging Careers Act This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to make the restrictions on oppressive child labor inapplicable to employment of an employee age 16 or 17 by a parent, or a person standing in place of a parent, in a lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR76 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing support for the designation of March 21, 2017, as "National Rosie the Riveter Day". Supports the designation of March 21, 2017, as National Rosie the Riveter Day. Acknowledges the important role played by women during World Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. |
| SB623 | Intro
Sine Die | READ Act Reinforcing Education Accountability in Development Act This bill amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to state that it shall be U.S. policy to work with partner countries, other donors, multilateral institutions, the private sector, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Online Information Act of 2017 This bill establishes a Public Online Information Advisory Committee to: (1) coordinate the government's efforts to make information from all three branches of government available on the Internet, and (2) issue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB622 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair and Open Competition Act This bill prohibits a federal executive agency that awards any construction contract after the enactment of this bill from requiring or prohibiting a contract bidder from entering into agreements with labor organizations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Lawful Interstate Transportation of Firearms Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions related to the interstate transportation of firearms and ammunition. An individual may transport a firearm between two places (e.g., stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB629 | Intro
Sine Die | Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to refuse a new animal drug application if the drug is a medically important antimicrobial used t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreign Agents Registration Modernization and Enforcement Act This bill amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) to provide that whenever the Department of Justice (DOJ) has reason to believe that a person or enterprise may be in pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Educating Tomorrow's Workforce Act of 2017 This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to revise the requirements for the plan of a state seeking federal assistance for career and technical education programs. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Community College to Career Fund Act This bill amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to direct the Department of Labor to award competitive grants to eligible community colleges, four-year public institutions of higher education, tribal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB624 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, satellite television, and Internet access service contracts while deployed. This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to allow a service member to terminate a commercial mobile, tele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Maritime Washington National Heritage Area Act This bill establishes the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area in the state of Washington. The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation shall be the local coordinating entity for the area and sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include physical therapy within the definition of "primary health services" for purposes of the National Health Service Corps. The bill make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Food Security is National Security Act of 2017 This bill amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to: (1) require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to consider the potential effects of a proposed or pending transaction on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection-Inspector General Reform Act of 2017 CFPB-IG Act of 2017 This bill amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to repeal the authority of the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2017 This bill amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to make Public Company Accounting Oversight Board disciplinary proceedings open to the public unless the board, on its own motion or after considering the moti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2017 This bill amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to modify definitions relating to homeless individuals and homeless children or youth as used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Ratepayer Fairness Act This bill amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require a state regulatory authority and a nonregulated electric utility, to the extent that they allow electric utility rates to include charges that subsi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB608 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to nullify the effect of the March 6, 2017, Executive order that temporarily restricts most nationals from six countries from entering the United States. This bill rescinds the provisions of Executive Order 13780, entitled "Protecting the Nati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Higher Education Innovation Act This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish an alternative authorization process for institutions of higher education (IHEs) and other education providers to particip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SJR38 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Approval, Disapproval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB602 | Intro
Sine Die | Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) 100% expensing in a current taxable year of the cost of automated fire sprinkler system retrofit property, as defined by this bill; and (2) accelerated depreciation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Real Time Transparency Act This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the notification requirement for campaign contributions of $1,000 or more. The bill applies this requirement to any political committee, not just a candid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SJR37 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Compressors". This joint resolu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway Rights-of-Way Permitting Efficiency Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to National Forest System land, and the Department of the Interior, with respect to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Charitable Contributions Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the requirement for taxpayers to substantiate deductions for charitable contributions of $250 or more with a contemporaneous written acknowledgment b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB603 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill for the relief of Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez. Provides for the relief of Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program Act of 2017 This bill designates the existing Department of Defense (DOD) information assurance scholarship and grant program as the Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program to provide financial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB596 | Intro
Sine Die | SEAT Act of 2017 Seat Egress in Air Travel Act of 2017 This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe regulations: establishing minimum standards for space on passenger aircraft, including the size, width, and pitch of seats, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB586 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of the foreign-source income of domestic corporations, to: eliminate the deferral of tax on the foreign-source income of U.S. corporations f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB600 | Intro
Sine Die | Fairness in Federal Disaster Declarations Act of 2017 This bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to amend the rules concerning the factors it considers when evaluating a governor's request for a major disaster declaration to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program Act of 2017 This bill amends title VII (Graduate and Postsecondary Improvement Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish, as part of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR86 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution recognizing the contributions of AmeriCorps members and alumni to the lives of the people of the United States. Encourages the people of the United States to join in a national effort to salute AmeriCorps members and alumni and raise awa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1751; text as passed Senate: CR S1750) |
| SB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish requirements and authorities for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) related to: (1) preventing identify theft and tax refund fraud, and (2) th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB598 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an above-the-line deduction for child care expenses, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize their tax deductions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB564 | Intro
Sine Die | HANGUP Act Help Americans Never Get Unwanted Phone calls Act of 2017 This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to repeal provisions that authorize the use of automated telephone equipment (robocall or robotext equipment) to call cellular teleph...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB580 | Intro
Sine Die | Truth in Regulations Act of 2017 This bill requires agencies to have written procedures to ensure that an issuance of policy guidance documents (other than regulatory actions) is approved by each appropriate senior agency official unless a supervisor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | BEST Act Better Evaluation of Science and Technology Act This bill requires a federal agency, to the extent it is making a decision based on science when issuing a rule, to use scientific information, technical procedures, methods, protocols, methodo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
