| SB1361 | Intro
Sine Die | Improving Access to Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise cardiac, intensive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | CARERS Act of 2017 Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States Act of 2017 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that the Act's regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties do not apply to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1376 | Intro
Sine Die | No Hearing, No Vote Act of 2017 This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit the Senate from considering any reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution, unless: the legislation is either ordered reported to the Senate by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Budget Committee |
| HB2916 | Intro
Sine Die | Charities Helping Americans Regularly Throughout the Year Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify several tax provisions affecting charitable contributions and tax-exempt organizations. The Internal Revenue Service may determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB1370 | Intro
Sine Die | Mental Health in Schools Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise a community children and violence program to assist local communities and schools in applying a public health approach to mental health services, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Restore Honor to Service Members Act This bill requires appropriate military record correction boards or discharge review boards to review the discharge characterization of any former members of the Armed Forces requesting a review who were discharge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Shawna Hill Post 9/11 Education Benefits Transferability Act This bill authorizes the reassignment a veteran's or Armed Forces member's Post-9/11 education benefits to another eligible dependent in cases where the original designated beneficiary dies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Price Gouging Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on pharmaceutical companies that sell prescription drugs that are subject to price spikes that exceed the annual percentage increase in the medical care consume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2924 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to establish the National Russian Threat Response Center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and for other purposes. This bill amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To House Intelligence Committee |
| SB1365 | Intro
Sine Die | Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes Act This bill amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 to include victims of acts of terror in the evaluation and treatment of veterans and civilians at military treatment facilities. The De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SR192 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution congratulating the Golden State Warriors for their historic championship victory in the 2017 National Basketball Association Finals. Congratulates the Golden State Warriors for winning the 2017 National Basketball Association Finals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3560; text: CR S3559) |
| HR385 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing gratitude for the heroic actions of the United States Capitol Police and other first responders in the attack on Members of Congress on June 14, 2017, and expressing hope for a full recovery for the injured. Expresses: gratitude to U.S. Ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB1367 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study and issue a report that quantifies the energy savings benefits of operational efficiency programs and services for commercial, institutional, industrial, and governmental entities. This bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HR386 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing June 19, 2017, as this year's observance of the historical significance of Juneteenth Independence Day. Recognizes the historical significance and supports the continued celebration of Juneteenth Independence Day, which commemorates the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SR191 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution designating June 20, 2017, as "American Eagle Day" and celebrating the recovery and restoration of the bald eagle, the national symbol of the United States. Designates June 20, 2017, as American Eagle Day. Applauds the issuance of bald e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3560; text: CR S3558) |
| SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Tribal Veterans Health Care Enhancement Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to permit the Indian Health Service (IHS) to pay copayments owed to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by Indian veterans for medical se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
An errata sheet on written report No. 115-112 was printed. (text: 115S.Rept.112 errata) |
| SB882 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the entitlement to educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs for members of the Armed Forces awarded the Purple Heart, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB844 | Intro
Sine Die | GI Bill Fairness Act of 2017 This bill includes as active duty, for purposes of eligibility for post-9/11 veterans educational assistance, service of a member of a reserve component ordered to active duty to receive authorized medical care, to be med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1218 | Intro
Sine Die | Empowering FED Vets Act Empowering Federal Employment for Veterans Act of 2017 This bill requires executive agencies to establish or maintain a Veterans Employment Program Office and designate a veterans employment official to: (1) enhance employment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Arla Harrell Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reconsider and make a new determination regarding each claim for disability compensation in connection with exposure to mustard gas or lewisite during active military, nav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Yellow Ribbon Improvement Act of 2017 This bill revises the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Yellow Ribbon G.I. Education Enhancement Program (public-private contributions for educational assistance in addition to post-9/11 educational assistance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| HB2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Counterterrorism Preparedness Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to carry out a grant program for emergency response providers to prevent, prepare for, and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 122. |
| HB2774 | Intro
Sine Die | Hack DHS Act Hack the Department of Homeland Security Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a bug bounty pilot program to minimize vulnerabilities to DHS information systems. "Bug bounty program" is a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection |
| HB2770 | Intro
Sine Die | Health Care Options for All Act This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that individuals eligible to purchase coverage through a health insurance exchange who re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Janey Ensminger Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, at least every three years, to: review the scientific literature relevant to the relationship between the emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1192 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans TEST Accessibility Act Veterans To Enhance Studies Through Accessibility Act of 2017 This bill permits veterans to get reimbursed under the Post-9/11 educational assistance program for an approved licensing, certification, or national test a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| HB2397 | Intro
Sine Die | DPRK Act of 2017 Distribution and Promotion of Rights and Knowledge Act of 2017 This bill amends the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 to authorize the President, through the Department of State, to: (1) distribute or provide grants to distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote . |
| HB2797 | Intro
Sine Die | Patient Choice and Quality Care Act of 2017 This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to create and test a new Medicare model for advanced illness and care management that would enable certain Medicare beneficiaries with serious...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SB1330 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing Transferability of Entitlement to Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Act of 2017 This bill provides that in a case in which a post-9/11 educational assistance entitlement is transferred to a dependent and the service member transferor subseq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. |
| SB1002 | Intro
Sine Die | CLEAR Relief Act of 2017 Community Lending Enhancement and Regulatory Relief Act of 2017 This bill amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to exempt from specified reporting and attestation requirements a community bank with assets of $1 billion or les...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-15
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-106. |
| HB657 | Pass | Follow the Rules Act (Sec. 2) This bill extends the prohibition against a person taking, failing to take, or threatening to take or fail to take a personnel action against any employee or applicant for employment for refusing to obey an order that wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
Became Public Law No: 115-40. (TXT | PDF) |
| HB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Miners Pension Protection Act This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) to transfer certain funds to the 1974 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Pension Plan to provide pension benefits to retired coal miners ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill designates approximately 2.6 million acres of National Wilderness Preservation System land in the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska as the "Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 145. |
| SB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2017
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| SB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Apprenticeship and Jobs Training Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business-related tax credit for up to $5,000 for the training of a qualified individual in a qualified apprenticeship program or multi-employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1354 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual Health Insurance Marketplace Improvement Act This bill establishes and provides funds for an individual market stabilization reinsurance program to be administered in each state by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Under t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HCR64 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the United States Capitol Police and their role in securing the United States Capitol complex and protecting Members of Congress, their staff, and the general public. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To House Administration Committee |
| SB1349 | Intro
Sine Die | Leadership Recognition Act This bill makes the rate of monthly basic pay for the Senior Enlisted Advisors to the commanders of the combatant commands equivalent to the rate of monthly basic pay for the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB1355 | Intro
Sine Die | Combating the Heroin Epidemic Through Forensic Drug Testing Act of 2017 This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance to award grants to states to address...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1358 | Intro
Sine Die | Primary Care Enhancement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit an individual to pay primary care service arrangement costs from a health savings account; and (2) allow an eligible taxpayer enrolled in a high-deductible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HR384 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulating the Webster University chess team for winning a record-breaking fifth consecutive national title at the President's Cup collegiate chess championship in New York City. Congratulates Webster University for winning its fifth consecutive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| SB1351 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study access by underserved populations to general surgeons, including: (1) whether the heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Education Improvement Act of 2017 This bill permits veterans to use Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Post-9/11 educational assistance for an accredited independent study program offered by an educational institution that is not an institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Family-Based Care Services Act This bill establishes a definition, under Medicaid, for "qualified therapeutic family care services." Specifically, such services are those provided for children younger than age 21 who need institution-level care but c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1350 | Intro
Sine Die | Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to require a waiting period of at least 14 days after a petition is filed by an employer or employee relating to collective bargaining rights before the National L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SJR46 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. This joint resolution grants Congress the power to prohibit the physica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1360 | Intro
Sine Die | International Insurance Capital Standards Accountability Act of 2017 This bill directs the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) to establish the Insurance Policy Advisory Committee on International Capital Standards and Other Insurance Issues. The bill prohib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to exempt certain small hydroelectric power projects that are applying for relicensing under the Federal Power Act from the licensing requirements of that Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. |
| SB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2017 This bill expands eligibility for the family caregiver program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to include members of the Armed Forces or veterans who are seriously injured or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
Special Committee on Aging. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-364. |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Denali National Park Improvement Act to clarify certain provisions relating to the natural gas pipeline authorized in the Denali National Park and Preserve. (Sec. 1) This bill amends the Denali National Park Improvement Act to exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-14
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 146. |
