US Legislation | 2017-2018 | 115th Congress

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB4184	Intro Sine Die	ESPERER Act of 2017 Extending Status Protection for Eligible Refugees with Established Residency Act of 2017 This bill permits a qualifying national of Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, or Honduras who is in temporary protected status (TPS) to apply for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security
HB4388	Intro Sine Die	Forgotten Families Recovery Act of 2017 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Health
HB4390	Intro Sine Die	Hometown Heroes Relief Act of 2017 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Health
HB4192	Intro Sine Die	Domestic Violence Gun Homicide Prevention Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to award grants to states to carry out certain policies and procedures that restrict and penalize fi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations
HB4187	Intro Sine Die	BLAST Act Banning Lobbying and Safeguarding Trust Act [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice
HB4385	Intro Sine Die	Responsibility in Drug Advertising Act of 2017 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Health
HB4452	Intro Sine Die	Right to Lend Act of 2017 This bill repeals provisions of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act that require a financial institution, in the case of an application for credit by a business, to request information regarding whether the business is a women-... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Financial Services Committee
HB304	Pass	Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to register an emergency medical services (EMS) agency to administer controlled... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 Became Public Law No: 115-83. (TXT \| PDF)
HB4164	Intro Sine Die	Industrial Hemp Water Rights Act This bill specifies that the owner of an absolute or conditional water right (including a federally recognized tribe), or an entity that receives or distributes water contracted from the federal government, may, pursu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations
HR618	Intro Sine Die	Expressing support for the designation of the third Wednesday of November as "Utility Scam Awareness Day". Expresses support for the designation of Utility Scam Awareness Day. Encourages the people of the United States to observe Utility Scam Awarene... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Energy
HB4381	Intro Sine Die	Natural Gas Pipeline Public Health Protection Act of 2017 This bill suspends construction of natural gas facilities that have been issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission until violations r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Energy
HB4438	Intro Sine Die	To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to waive a prohibition, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) to authorize the Presiden... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management
HR625	Intro Sine Die	Supporting the goals, activities, and ideals of Prematurity Awareness Month. Expresses support for the recognition of Prematurity Awareness Month and for efforts to improve the care and treatment of infants born preterm. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Health
HB4443	Intro Sine Die	Urban Indian Health Parity Act This bill applies a Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., the federal matching rate under Medicaid) of 100% with respect to amounts expended as medical assistance for services received through an Urban Indian org... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-17 To House Subcommittee on Health
HB4213	Intro Sine Die	To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to establish a program to provide advance payments under the Emergency Conservation Program for the repair or replacement of fencing. This bill amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to require the Dep... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Conservation and Forestry Committee
SB2150	Intro Sine Die	Imitation Firearms Safety Act of 2017 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee
HB4425	Intro Sine Die	Food and Farm Act This bill reauthorizes and modifies several Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs that address: commodity support, crop insurance, conservation, food assistance, nutrition, farm credit, beginning farmers and ranchers, food waste... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Agriculture Committee
SB2151	Intro Sine Die	A bill to streamline the oil and gas permitting process and to recognize fee ownership for certain oil and gas drilling or spacing units, and for other purposes. This bill states that a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) drilling permit shall not be req... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee
SR342	Intro Sine Die	A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that States, cities, Tribal nations, businesses, and institutions of higher education in the United States should work towards achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Expresses the sense of the Sena... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee
SB2157	Intro Sine Die	Drug-Price Transparency in Communications Act [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
HB4208	Intro Sine Die	Wildland Fires Act of 2017 This bill requires the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture (USDA) to conduct a cost review each fiscal year of each wildfire covering an area greater than 100,000 acres. Appropriations for wildfire management operat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Conservation and Forestry Committee
HB4212	Intro Sine Die	To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to increase support for conservation practices under the emergency conservation program, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to increase the maximum cost-share paym... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Conservation and Forestry Committee
SB2139	Intro Sine Die	Chesapeake Bay Farm Bill Enhancements Act of 2017 This bill amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to modify and increase funding for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). (The RCPP operates through seve... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
HB4202	Intro Sine Die	PACE Act Parity in Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture
SB2153	Intro Sine Die	Truck Technology Parity Act This bill allows a vehicle that is propelled exclusively by means of electric battery power to exceed the Interstate System vehicle weight limit by an amount that is equal to the difference between: (1) the weight of the v... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
HB4428	Intro Sine Die	To amend the War Powers Resolution to transfer to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives the responsibilities assigned under such Resolution to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and for other p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Rules Committee
HB4416	Intro Sine Die	Simple FAFSA Act of 2017 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Education And The Workforce Committee
HR628	Intro Sine Die	Recognizing the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Recognizes the goals and principles of Transgender Day of Remembrance, supports an increase in the amount and accuracy of federal collection and reporting of data for violence against transgender people... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Judiciary Committee
SR341	Intro Sine Die	A resolution designating the week beginning November 13, 2017, as "National Apprenticeship Week". [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SR335	Intro Sine Die	A resolution designating the week of November 19 through November 25, 2017, during which the holiday of Thanksgiving is observed, as "National Family Week". Designates the week during which Thanksgiving is observed in 2017 as National Family Week. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB4211	Intro Sine Die	To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide to producers partial payments under the livestock indemnity program for livestock sold for salvage. This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Department of Agriculture to make paymen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture
SR340	Intro Sine Die	A resolution commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 3d Infantry Division. Commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 3d Infantry Division on November 21, 2017, and reveres its century of service to the military of the United States. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7310; text: CR S7304-7306)
SB2156	Intro Sine Die	Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2017 This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to terminate the requirement for certain budget-neutrality requirements associated with the Medicare hospital wage-index floor to be applied on a na... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Finance Committee
SB2148	Intro Sine Die	Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2017 This bill authorizes: (1) a Domestic Terrorism Unit within the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which shall be responsible for monitoring and analyzing domesti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB4450	Intro Sine Die	Veterans' STEM Education Program This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay an additional appropriate amount, beyond other educational assistance, to each individual entitled to post-9/11 educational assistance who is pursuin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity
HB4216	Intro Sine Die	Northern Mariana Islands Enhanced Nutrition Assistance Act of 2017 This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to reauthorize through FY2023 the pilot program for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to operate the Supplemental Nutritio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Nutrition Committee
SB2143	Intro Sine Die	WAGE Act Workplace Action for a Growing Economy Act [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
HR626	Intro Sine Die	Commending Turkish Americans nationwide for their rich contributions to the diversity of society, culture, economy, and civic life in the United States. Commends Turkish Americans for their rich contributions to the diversity of the society, culture,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee
HB3890	Intro Sine Die	Making Rural America Count Act This bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture from including incarcerated prison populations when determining eligibility or the levels of assistance for rural development programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee
HB4439	Intro Sine Die	Modernizing Credit Opportunities Act [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Financial Services Committee
SR339	Intro Sine Die	A resolution designating November 2017 as "National Runaway Prevention Month". Designates November 2017 as National Runaway Prevention Month. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7310; text: CR S7304)
SB2142	Intro Sine Die	CHP Support Act This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to redesignate the Department of Energy's Clean Energy Application Centers as the CHP Technical Assistance Partnership Program. The program must encourage deployment of combined ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee
HB4444	Intro Sine Die	Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act This bill establishes the Pension Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of the Treasury and a related trust fund to make loans to certain multiemployer defined benefit pension plans. To rece... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Education And The Workforce Committee
SB2137	Intro Sine Die	A bill to amend the Rural Development Act of 1972 to improve access to grants for evidence-based substance use disorder treatment services in rural areas, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Rural Development Act of 1972, with respect to the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
SB2140	Intro Sine Die	A bill to provide for an exchange of Federal land and non-Federal land in the State of Idaho, and for other purposes. This bill directs the Department of the Interior, if the J.R. Simplot Company offers to convey three identified parcels of land, to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee
HB4435	Intro Sine Die	Go to High School, Go to College Act of 2017 This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Department of Education to carry out (from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2023) a program awarding Early College Federal Pell Grants to stude... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To House Education And The Workforce Committee
SB2159	Intro Sine Die	ME TOO Congress Act Member and Employee Training and Oversight On Congress Act [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
SR337	Intro Sine Die	A resolution designating November 26, 2017, as "Drive Safer Sunday". Designates November 26, 2017, as Drive Safer Sunday. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7310; text: CR S7303)
SB2158	Intro Sine Die	USA Liberty Act of 2017 Uniting and Strengthening American Liberty Act of 2017 [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 To Senate Judiciary Committee
SR279	Intro Sine Die	A resolution reaffirming the commitment of the United States to promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in Cambodia. Reaffirms the U.S. commitment to promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in Cambodia. Condemns political vi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2017-11-16 Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment and an amended preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S7309-7310)