| SR34 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SR40 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution designating the week beginning on February 5, 2017, as "National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week". Designates the week beginning on February 5, 2017, as National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S604; text as passed Senate: CR S603) |
| SR41 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution raising awareness and encouraging the prevention of stalking by designating January 2017 as "National Stalking Awareness Month". Designates January 2017 as National Stalking Awareness Month. Applauds the efforts of service providers, pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S604; text as passed Senate: CR S603-604) |
| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | The Free Speech Fairness Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a tax-exempt organization to make certain statements related to a political campaign without losing its tax-exempt status. An organization may not lose its tax-exempt s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR33 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare 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 reduce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act This bill amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to prohibit U.S. courts from recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by an individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR29 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution recognizing January 28, 2017, as "National Data Privacy Day". Recognizes January 28, 2017, as National Data Privacy Day. Encourages governments, individuals, and relevant organizations to protect the privacy of individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to block implementation of the Executive order that restricts individuals from certain countries from entering the United States. This bill prohibits any federal agency funds, resources, or fees from being used to implement or enforce Executiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SJR12 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration relating to the Federal Acquisition Regulation. This joint resolution nullifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SJR10 | 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 Secretary of the Interior relating to stream protection. This joint resolution nullifies the Stream Protecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SJR14 | 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 Social Security Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007. rule fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR28 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution designating January 27, 2017, as "Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day". Designates January 27, 2017, as Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day. Calls on federal, state, and local agencies; community organizations; nonprofit organizati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Davis-Bacon Repeal Act This bill repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Protect Funding for Women's Health Care Act This bill prohibits federal funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America or its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or clinics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SJR15 | 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 Director of the Bureau of Land Management relating to resource management planning. This joint resolution nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SJR13 | 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 Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to compliance with title X requirements by project recipient...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to establish a program to award grants, on a competitive basis, to institutions of higher education or consortiums of such institutions, in a collaborative pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB238 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Megellas, formerly of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and currently of Colleyville, Texas, for acts of valor on January 28th, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. This bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation". ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Bring Jobs Home Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) grant business taxpayers a tax credit for up to 20% of insourcing expenses incurred for eliminating a business located outside the United States and relocating it within the Unite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB242 | Intro
Sine Die | WINGMAN Act Working to Integrate Networks Guaranteeing Member Access Now Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide each veteran who submits a claim for VA benefits with an opportunity to permit a covered congressional e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax treatment of certain alcoholic beverages, to: exclude the aging period from the production period for beer, wine, or distilled...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB240 | 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] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permanently extend the application by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of an instruction against the enforcement of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act This bill states that foreign nongovernmental organizations shall not be ineligible for U.S. international development assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 solely on the basis of health or medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Protection of Military Airfields from Wind Turbine Encroachment Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make new wind facilities located near certain military installations ineligible for the tax credits for: (1) electricity produced from r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring that the Federal budget be balanced. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding tot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR20 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to require any health care practitioner who is present when a child is born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion to: (1) exercise the same degree of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Safeguard Aquaculture Farmers Act This bill provides the force and effect of law for certain regulations that allow for the taking of double-crested cormorants (birds) that eat fish at aquaculture facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SCR6 | Intro
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act. Declares that Congress should not impose any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge: (1) relating to the public performance of sound recordings on a local radio station for b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Iran Nonnuclear Sanctions Act of 2017 This bill prescribes requirements for sanctions with respect to: (1) Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and related entities; (2) Mahan Air; (3) Iran's support of terrorism; (4) Iran's human rights abuses; (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Broadband Deployment Act of 2017 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 Communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SR23 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution establishing the Select Committee on Cybersecurity. Establishes the Senate Select Committee on Cybersecurity to oversee and make continuing studies of, and recommendations regarding, cybersecurity threats to the United States. The commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | TIRE Act Transportation Investment Recalibration to Equality Act This bill repeals provisions that require that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to laborers and mechanics working on federal-aid highway construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | Death Tax Repeal Act of 2017 7 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and (2) make permanent the maximum 35% gift tax rate and the lifetime gift tax exemption. The bill also provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho. This bill requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the district of Idaho.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | PACE Act Promoting Affordable Childcare for Everyone Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment (known as the Child and Depend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Capitalizing on American Methane Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) include in the tax credit for investment in a qualifying gasification project any qualified methane conversion technology, and (2) allow an alternative fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to protect individual application information submitted to DHS after June 15, 2012, as part of a request for consideration or reconsideration for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR25 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution designating January 27, 2017, as a national day of remembrance for people of the United States who, during the Cold War, worked and lived downwind from nuclear testing sites and were adversely affected by the radiation exposure generated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Combating European Anti-Semitism Act of 2017 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) it is in the U.S. national interest to combat anti-Semitism at home and abroad; (2) there is a need to ensure the security of European Jewish communities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SR26 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution designating the week of January 22 through January 28, 2017, as "National School Choice Week". Designates the week of January 22-January 28, 2017, as National School Choice Week. Encourages all parents to learn more about the educational...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S456; text as passed Senate: CR S455) |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing Veterans Overdue Care Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out major medical facility leases in specified amounts for: outpatient clinics in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Daytona Beach, Gainesville, and Ocala,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime to knowingly transport a minor to another state to obtain an abortion without satisfying a parental involvement law in the minor's resident state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR24 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs for the 115th Congress. Limits expenses of such committee to specified amounts from: (1) March ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | End Outsourcing Act This bill modifies provisions of tax, labor, and federal contracting laws related to the outsourcing of jobs. The bill amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require employers to include an outsourcing sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | MANIFEST for Human Spaceflight Act of 2017 Mapping a New and Innovative Focus on Our Exploration Strategy for Human Spaceflight Act of 2017 This bill amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 to make it a key ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | A PLUS Act Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act This bill allows each state to receive federal elementary and secondary education funds on a consolidated basis and manage the funds to advance the educational policy of the state. A declaration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
