| SB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal criminal code to declare that any person who knowingly engages in any scheme or artifice to defraud an individual of veterans' benefits, or in connection with obtaining veter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring the Reliability of Our Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Act This bill directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to maintain secondary backup capability for each class of hurricane reconnaissance, research, surveillance, and respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require the President to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and to make that Agreement ineligible for expedited consideration by Congress. This bill directs the President to provide to the governments of Australia, Brunei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Countering Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israel Activities at the United Nations Act of 2017 This bill requires the President to direct the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (U.N.) to use U.S. influence at the U.N. to work toward reducing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Miners Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) to transfer certain funds to the Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan and the 1974 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Pension Plan to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | RAISE Act Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees Act This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to allow an employer to pay an employee higher wages, pay, or other compensation than provided for in a collective bargaining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | HUD Inspection Process and Enforcement Reform Act of 2017 This bill allows the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to remove certain HUD employees from civil service or to reduce their grade or pay for misconduct or performance. HUD emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Muhammad Ali Commemorative Coin Act This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue commemorative coins that emblemize the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali. Surcharges received from the sale of these coins shall be paid to: (1) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | HELP for Coal Miners Health Care Act of 2017 Helping Ensure Long-Term Protection for Coal Miners Health Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) to transfer certain funds to the Multiemployer He...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the final rules relating to the listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and the State of Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This bill requires the Department of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SCR3 | Engross
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2017 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026. Establishes the congressional budget for the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SR14 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution commending the Clemson University Tigers football team for winning the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship. Commends the Clemson University Tigers for winning the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S320) |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Safeguard Israel Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the U.S. government from making any voluntary or assessed contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) or any U.N. organization until the President certifies to Congress that Security Council Resolution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SR13 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution recognizing the historical importance of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is a historically significant African-American who has made an im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act This bill modifies the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Georgia to include approximately eight acres identified as Wallis House and Harriston Hill. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act This bill addresses the mine permitting process. Under the bill, projects that provide minerals vital to job creation, energy infrastructure, American economic competitiveness, and national secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces (military spouse) who moves with such member to another state under a permanent change of station order a tax cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal ID Act of 2017 This bill repeals provisions of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that prohibit federal agencies from accepting state-issued driver's licenses or identification cards that do meet minimum specified security requirements. The bill directs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | SAFE Act Securing Active and Fair Enforcement Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): (1) shall grant a three-year provisional protected presence to a qualifying alien, (2) m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreign Spill Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to make foreign facilities that are located offshore and outside the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) liable for removal costs and damages that result from oil spills th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | DAIRY PRIDE Act Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, Milk, and Cheese To Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday Act This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the sale of any food that uses the market ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Economic Assistance Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the establishment of community economic assistance zones that are eligible for certain tax deductions and credits. A zone must be nominated by the gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act This bill redesignates the Ocmulgee National Monument in Georgia as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. The boundary of the park is adjusted to include approximately 2,100 acres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | Bring Our Heroes Home Act This bill: (1) requires the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to establish the Missing Armed Forces Personnel Records Collection; and (2) establishes the Missing Armed Forces Personnel Records Review Board,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage and payment with respect to certain pharmacist services that: (1) are furnished by a pharmaci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB116 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit veterans who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces entitle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SR12 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that clean water is a national priority, and that the June 29, 2015, Waters of the United States Rule should be withdrawn or vacated. Calls for the nullification of the final rule entitled, "Clean Water...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Small Business Ownership Improvements Act This bill amends the Small Business Act to establish the Boots to Business Program under which the Small Business Administration (SBA) shall provide entrepreneurship training to: members of the Armed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SR6 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution objecting to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 and to all efforts that undermine direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians for a secure and peaceful settlement. Objects to U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 3. |
| SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage Debt Tax Relief Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2018 the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of indebtedness on a principal residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017 This bill establishes public notice and comment procedures and motion to intervene standards for civil actions seeking to compel agency action and alleging that an agency is unlawfully withh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2017 This bill requires the President, before a national monument can be designated on public land, to obtain congressional approval, certify compliance with the National Environmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Maximizing Efficiency and Improving Access to Providers at the Department of Veterans Affairs Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out an 18-month pilot program to increase the use of medical scribes to maximize the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of 2016. This joint resolution nullifies the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Death with Dignity Act of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on the sale of a medical device by the manufacturer, producer, or importer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Promise Zone Job Creation Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Agriculture, acting jointly, to designate, before January 1, 2019, not more than 40 areas as Promise Zones...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act This bill amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to authorize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to initiate proceedings against parties to any agreement resolving or settling a patent infringement claim in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Fort Frederica National Monument Boundary Expansion Act This bill expands the boundary of the Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island, Georgia, and increases the maximum number of acres that may be included in the monument from 250 to 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Preventing Destabilization of Iraq and Syria Act of 2017 This bill directs the President to impose U.S.-based property blocking and entry sanctions against any foreign person that: (1) is responsible for or complicit in actions that threaten the peac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | BRIDGE Act Bar Removal of Individuals who Dream and Grow our Economy Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): (1) shall grant a three-year provisional protected presence to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB106 | Intro
Sine Die | ObamaCare Repeal Act This bill repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and restores provisions of law amended by those Acts, effective January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | King Cove Road Land Exchange Act This bill declares that, if the state of Alaska offers to convey to the Department of the Interior 43,093 acres of state-owned land, Interior shall convey to Alaska, in exchange, 206 acres of federal land within the I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish a process to vacate convictions and expunge arrests for criminal offenses committed by trafficking victims that directly result from or relate to having ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer Financial Protection Board Act of 2017 This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to specify that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shall be managed by a board of directors rather than by a director and deputy dire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act This bill modifies the boundary of Shiloh National Military Park to include the following areas : (1) Fallen Timbers Battlefield, (2) Russell House ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017 This bill nullifies: the final Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule entitled "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" and any successor rule substantially similar to it, and the notice re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Balanced Budget Accountability Act This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), upon adoption by a chamber of Congress of a concurrent budget resolution for a fiscal year, to determine and submit to the Speaker of the House of Repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act This bill prohibits the Department of Energy (DOE) from making an expenditure from the Nuclear Waste Fund for the costs incurred by DOE in connection with disposing of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act This bill amends the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to authorize the National Science Foundation to encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their focus bey...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to protect the right of individuals to bear arms at water resources development projects. This bill prohibits the Department of the Army from promulgating or enforcing any regulation that prohibits an individual from possessing a firearm in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
