| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to terminate the EB-5 Visa Program and to reallocate the employment creation visas to the other employment-based visa classifications. This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the EB-5 visa category. The number of fisc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | JOBS Act of 2017 Jumpstart Our Businesses by Supporting Students Act of 2017 This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish the Job Training Federal Pell Grant Program. The Department of Education must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR22 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs for the 115th Congress. Limits expenses of such committee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the President from using the Armed Forces to conduct a first-use nuclear strike unless such strike is conducted pursuant to a congressional declaration of war expressly authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Obamacare Replacement Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Social Security Act to repeal certain provisions regarding health insurance, inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | State Refugee Security Act of 2017 This bill directs the Office of Refugee Resettlement to notify the state agency responsible for coordinating the placement or resettlement of an alien refugee not later than 21 days before the alien's arrival in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Senior$afe Act of 2017 This bill extends immunity from liability to certain individuals who, in good faith and with reasonable care, disclose the suspected exploitation of a senior citizen to a regulatory or law-enforcement agency. Specifically, this...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Health Emergency Response and Accountability Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services, upon determination of a public health emergency, to provide for the convening of a group of federal officials to prepare monthly r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SJR8 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress and the states ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | CHOICE Act Creating Hope and Opportunity for Individuals and Communities through Education Act This bill amends the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act to include among the eligibility criteria for opportunity scholarships, a requirement tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security Beneficiary 2nd Amendment Rights Protection Act This bill amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to specify that an OASDI or SSI ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Life at Conception Act of 2017 This bill declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR21 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on the Judiciary. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary from March 1, 2017, through February 28, 2019. Limits expenses of such committee to specified amounts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-24
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB191 | Intro
Sine Die | Patient Freedom Act of 2017 This bill provides states with three options regarding title I (provisions on health insurance reform, exchanges, and subsidies) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): (1) continue implementing PPACA, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR19 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution denouncing the deadly attack at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, honoring the lives of the victims, offering condolences to their families, friends, and all those affected, and commending the efforts of law enforcement an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S404; text as passed Senate: CR S404) |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Act This bill directs the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to establish a Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Matching Grant Program (VITA grant program) for the development, expansion, or continuation of vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Head Start Improvement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Head Start Act to replace the existing Head Start program with block grants to states and Indian tribes for prekindergarten (pre-K) education. Instead of providing direct financial assistance to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical. Provides for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act of 2017 This bill withdraws specified federal land in Curry and Josephine Counties in Oregon from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and pate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | CHOICE Act Consumer Health Options and Insurance Competition Enhancement Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to offer, throughout the United States, a public health insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution to constitute the minority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. Designates the minority party's membership on the Senate Committee on Rules and Administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S365; text as passed Senate: CR S362) |
| SJR6 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the United States or any state from denying or abridg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 TITLE I--INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (Sec. 101) This bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of: the Office of the Director of National ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 4. |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017 This bill makes permanent the prohibition on the use of federal funds, including funds in the budget of the District of Columbia, for abortion or health coverage that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Court-Appointed Guardian Accountability and Senior Protection Act This bill amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services and Elder Justice) of the Social Security Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services to award grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR16 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. Designates the majority party's membership on the Senate Committee on Rules and Administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S365; text as passed Senate: CR S362) |
| SR15 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Mexico City policy should be permanently established. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President should immediately reapply and consider improving the Mexico City Policy (require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB84 | Pass | A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces. (Sec. 1) This bill allows the first person,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Became Public Law No: 115-2. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Short on Competition Act This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize importation of life-saving drugs for which there is, or is likely to be, a shortage. For a drug to be im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to ensure that certain Federal public works and infrastructure projects use materials produced in the United States, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish a report that identifies all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act This bill amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to make the E-Verify program permanent. The bill requires: (1) federal agencies, contractors, and critical emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2017 This bill amends the the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Global Trade Accountability Act of 2017 This bill amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require congressional approval of unilateral trade actions. Such actions may take effect without congressional approval for one 90-day period if the President: determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Prevention Act This bill repeals the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a program of risk corridors for 2014, 2015, and 2016 und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Terror Intelligence Improvement Act of 2017 This bill requires each federal department or agency to provide to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) information about a person who is or has been under a federal terrorism investigation. The FBI an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB156 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft. This bill directs the Internal Revenue Servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Terrorism Survivors Student Loan Deferment Act This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow a borrower who is a victim of a terrorist attack to defer (i.e., suspend repayments on) student loans made unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SJR5 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment. This joint resolution eliminates the time limit for ratification of the equal rights amendment (prohibits discrimination on account of sex) proposed to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Hurricane Forecast Improvement Act of 2017 This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to maintain a project to improve hurricane forecasting. The project's goal is to develop and extend accurate hurricane forecasts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to remove or demote a VA employee based on performance or misconduct. The VA may remove such individual from the civil service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Combating BDS Act of 2017 This bill allows a state or local government to adopt and enforce measures to divest its assets from, prohibit investment of its assets in, or restrict contracting with: (1) an entity that engages in a commerce- or investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2017 This bill declares that a Washington, DC statute that prohibits the killing of wild birds and wild animals in DC does not authorize the DC Council, Mayor, or any DC governmental or regulatory authority to proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms Manufacturers and Dealers Protection Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Department of Justice, or any other federal agency from using funds to carry out Operation Choke Point or any other program d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2017 This bill directs the Internal Revenue Service to make available to taxpayers who have turned age 65 at the close of the taxable year a new federal income tax Form 1040SR (similar to the existing Form 1040EZ). ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Let Seniors Work Act of 2017 This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the federal payroll tax with respect to the earnings of an individual who has attained retireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential Innovation Fellows Program Act of 2017 Presidential Innovation Fellows Program Act of 2017 This bill establishes in the General Services Administration (GSA) the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program to enable exceptional individuals w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP code for particular communities. This bill requires the United States Postal Service, by September 30, 2017, to designate a single, unique ZIP code for each of the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Educational Opportunities Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax credit for charitable contributions to a scholarship granting organization. The bill allows a maximum credit amount of $4,500 ($2,250 for a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Caregiver Program Information Dissemination Act of 2017 This bill requires pre-separation counseling for members of the Armed Forces to include a description of Department of Veterans Affairs family caregiver assistance and support services, includin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SCR5 | Intro
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution affirming the importance of religious freedom as a fundamental human right that is essential to a free society and protected for all people of the United States under the Constitution of the United States, and recognizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
