| SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | Conscience Protection Act of 2017 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 penalizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-03
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SJR20 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate corporations, limited liability companies, and other corporate entities established by the laws of any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR46 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on the Budget. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on the Budget for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-03
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB303 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to discontinue a Federal program that authorizes State and local law enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, and detain aliens in accordance with a written agreement with the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB299 | Intro
Sine Die | Agency Accountability Act of 2017 This bill requires any agency that receives a fee, fine, penalty, or proceeds from a settlement to deposit the amount in the general fund of the Treasury. The funds may not be used unless the funding is provided in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-03
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports directly with the Federal Election Commission, instead of with the Senate as c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-03
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to extend through FY2022 the authorization for deposit and use of lease revenues under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970. Such funds shall be available to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Judicial Administration and Improvement Act of 2017 This bill divides the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into: (1) a new Ninth Circuit, to be composed of California, Hawaii, Oregon, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands; and (2) a newly...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to nullify the effect of the recent executive order that temporarily restricted individuals from certain countries from entering the United States. This bill rescinds the provisions of Executive Order 13769, entitled "Protecting the Nation fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 7. |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act This bill includes veterans who participated in the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands between January 1, 1977, and December 31, 1980, as radiation exposed veterans for purposes of the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SR42 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB297 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing Competition in Pharmaceuticals Act This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise provisions regarding review and approval of generic drug applications or supplements to generic drug applications for drugs: (1) for whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR27 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution honoring the life and achievements of Eugene A. "Gene" Cernan. Honors the life of Gene Cernan who was a Navy aviator, fighter pilot, electrical engineer, and the last astronaut to walk on the Moon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and an amended preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S661) |
| SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | End Surprise Billing Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require a critical access hospital or other hospital to comply, as a condition of participation in Medicare, with certain requirements related to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB295 | Intro
Sine Die | Circuit Court of Appeals Restructuring and Modernization Act This bill divides the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into: (1) a new Ninth Circuit, to be composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and Northern Mariana Islands; and (2) a newly es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR43 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution recognizing January 2017 as National Mentoring Month. Recognizes: (1) January 2017 as National Mentoring Month, and (2) the staff and volunteers at quality mentoring programs who help young people reach their full potential. Acknowledges...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S661; text as passed Senate: CR S660) |
| SB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exempt traditional large and premium cigars from regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Courts of Appeals Modernization Act This bill establishes a Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals to: (1) study the present division of the U.S. courts of appeals, with particular references to the U.S. Court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB290 | Intro
Sine Die | HOME Act Helping Our Middle-Class Entrepreneurs Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer who uses a residence to conduct a trade or business a standard tax deduction equal to the lesser of $1,500 or the taxpayer's gross trad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory Predictability for Business Growth Act of 2017 This bill adds the definitions of "longstanding interpretative rule" and "revise" to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). A longstanding interpretative rule is distinguished from an "interp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Agricultural Export Expansion Act of 2017 This bill amends the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 to permit a person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to provide payment or financing for sales of agricultural com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB281 | Intro
Sine Die | Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2017 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) eliminate the per country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, and (2) increase the per country numerical limitation for fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB277 | Intro
Sine Die | Rural Telecommunications and Broadband Service Act of 2017 This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish within the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) a Rural Telecommunications and Broadband Advisory Committee to: provide advice ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB291 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening Oversight of National Security Act of 2017 This bill amends the National Security Act of 1947 to add the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as statutorily required members of the National Sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Select Intelligence Committee |
| SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | SAND Act Sand Acquisition, Nourishment, and Development Act This bill amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to eliminate the limitation that the Army Corps of Engineers may acquire fill material for beach erosion and nourishment for an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SJR18 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by the Department of the Interior relating to Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and Closur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB265 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act This bill amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and other laws to: expand restrictions on federal government employees' acceptance of compensation from nongovernment sources, generally require certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | Investing in Student Success Act of 2017 This bill authorizes an individual (i.e., a student) and another person (i.e., an investor) to enter an income-share agreement (ISA) in which the student agrees to pay a percentage of future income, for a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR32 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Authorizes expenditures by the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR31 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing the expenditures by the Special Committee on Aging. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Special Committee on Aging for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Drug Savings Act of 2017 This bill requires drug manufacturers to issue rebates to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for prescription drugs dispensed to eligible low-income individuals under the Medicare prescription drug be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Build USA Infrastructure Act This bill requires, for the five-year period beginning on October 1, 2020, the deposit of the first $21.4 billion of revenues collected by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security into...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SJR16 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution approving the discontinuation of the process for consideration and automatic implementation of the annual proposal of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board under section 1899A of the Social Security Act. This joint resolution ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR37 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Foreign Relations. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Medicare from Executive Action Act of 2017 This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to terminate the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Under PPACA, the IPAB is tasked with developing proposals to red...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | SOAR to Health and Wellness Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to replace the existing Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training (or SOAR to Health and Wellness Training) program with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB270 | Intro
Sine Die | Pension and Budget Integrity Act of 2017 This bill prohibits provisions that increase or extend an increase of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums from being counted as an offset to determine budget points of order for legislation in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SR39 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB272 | Intro
Sine Die | Strengthening American Transportation Security Act of 2017 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the personnel system used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) provides insufficient workplace protections for its workforce and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Greater Sage-Grouse Protection and Recovery Act of 2017 This bill addresses the October 2, 2015, finding of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that the greater sage grouse is not an endangered or threatened species. Until September 30, 2027, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2017 This bill allows a beneficiary of a Holocaust-era life, dowry, education, annuity, property, or other insurance policy to bring a civil action in a U.S. district court against the insurer for the covered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR36 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR38 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution recognizing January 30, 2017, as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution". Honors Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu for his loyalty and patriotism to the United States, his work to advocate for the civil liberties of all peop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SJR17 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution approving the discontinuation of the process for consideration and automatic implementation of the annual proposal of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board under section 1899A of the Social Security Act. This joint resolution ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR30 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry for the 115th Congress. Limits expenses of such committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the nutritional information that restaurants and retail food establishments must disclose. The nutrient content disclosure statement on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Steel Industry Preservation Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify the production tax credit for steel industry fuel. (Under current law, steel industry fuel is a fuel which is: (1) produced through a process of liquefyin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017 This bill repeals existing caps on Medicare payment for certain outpatient physical-therapy services and speech-language pathology services. Under current law, annual payment for such services is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | FAIR Act Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act of 2017 Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act of 2017 or the FAIR Act This bill increases by 3.2% in FY2018 the rate of basic pay for federal employees under the statutory pay systems (relating to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to prohibit any hiring freeze from affecting any Department of Defense position at, or in support of, a public shipyard. This bill declares that the memorandum titled "Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze" published on January 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
