| HB439 | Intro
Sine Die | Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 7 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to take several actions to prevent and respond to tax-related identity t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HJR19 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the electoral college and to provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| 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 |
| HJR18 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution requiring that each agency and department's funding is justified. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HJR12 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the United States Government from increasing its debt except for a specific purpose by law adopted by three-fourths of the membership of each House of Congress. This joint re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| 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 |
| HJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of years an individual may serve as a Member of Congress. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting the total period an individual may serve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB96 | Intro
Sine Die | TSA Loose Change Act This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to transfer annually, based on requests for proposals, unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints to nonprofit organizations that operate multiple ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on Transportation Security |
| 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 |
| HJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year unless Congress a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| 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 |
| HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Default Prevention Act This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to continue to borrow to pay the principal and interest on certain obligations if the debt of the United States exceeds the statutory limit. If the debt limit is exceeded, Treas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the $1 million limitation on the deductibility of employee compensation, to: (1) extend such limitation to any individual who is a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2017 This bill repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that limit payments for medications from health savings accounts, medical savings accoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR11 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution encouraging the development of best business practices to fully utilize the potential of the United States. Encourages each corporate, academic, and social entity: (1) to develop an internal rule modeled after a successful business pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the $1 million limitation on the deductibility of employee compensation, to: (1) extend such limitation to any individual who is a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Encourage our Educators Act This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify provisions of the teacher loan forgiveness program. Specifically, the legislation reduces from five to three years the period of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective Contraception Act This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prioritize review of supplemental drug applications (applications to modify the approved use of a drug) for contraceptive dru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SR10 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the trafficking of illicit fentanyl into the United States from Mexico and China. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: the use of illicit fentanyl in the United States and the resulting ove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Paying U.S. in Peanuts Act This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to repeal the rules for peanuts under the nonrecourse marketing assistance loan program administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). (Under a nonrecourse marketing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| HB430 | Intro
Sine Die | State Sponsors of Terrorism Review Enhancement Act This bill amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Arms Export Control Act, and the Export Administration Act of 1979, with respect to the rescission of a determination of a country as a state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act This bill prohibits a sanctuary jurisdiction from receiving grants under certain Economic Development Assistance Programs and the Community Development Block Grant Program. A sanctuary jurisdiction is a state or po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR43 | Intro
Sine Die | Stay on Schedule (S.O.S.) Resolution Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order for the House to consider a concurrent resolution for its adjournment during any day in August o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax Free Health Insurance Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer a deduction from gross income of insurance premiums paid for the health care coverage of the taxpayer and the taxpayer's spouse and depen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe and Secure Federal Websites Act of 2017 This bill prohibits a federal agency from deploying or making available to the public a new federal personally identifiable information website (new Federal PII Website) until the chief information officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Choice Continuation Act This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to eliminate the August 7, 2017, termination date for the Veterans Choice Program, which allows the program to operate until all of the mone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Modernizing Government Travel Act Modernizing Government Travel Act This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to prescribe regulations to provide for the reimbursement of federal employees traveling on official business for the use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HR37 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for the attendance of the House at the Inaugural Ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States. Requires the House of Representatives to: (1) proceed to the West Front of the Capitol at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, January 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2017 This bill repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that limit payments for medications from health savings accounts, medical savings accoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | No Budget, No Pay Act This bill withholds the salaries of Members of a house of Congress that has not agreed to a budget resolution for FY2018 by April 15, 2017, as required by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Salaries are withheld from April 16...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Administration Committee |
| HB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2017 This bill amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require certain consumer reporting agencies to disclose, upon request, as part of a consumer's free annual disclosure: (1) the consumer's current credit score,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB397 | Intro
Sine Die | Members of Congress Tax Accountability Act of 2017 This bill amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require Members of Congress to include in their annual financial disclosure reports the amount of any delinquent tax liability owed to the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Administration Committee |
| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations within 185 days permitting individuals to impor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | CORE Act Creating Opportunities for Rural Economies Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require at least 5% of the new markets tax credit limitation to be allocated to community development entities in connection with certain investment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Tax Accountability Act of 2017 This bill declares that no government contracts or grants should be awarded to individuals or companies with seriously delinquent federal tax debts. Agencies offering a grant or issuing a solicitation for bids or a requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB389 | Intro
Sine Die | Credit Union Residential Loan Parity Act This bill amends the Federal Credit Union Act to allow a credit union to extend a member business loan with respect to a one- to four-family dwelling, regardless of whether the dwelling is the member's primary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HR42 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for the consideration of reported bills or joint resolutions that have not been considered by the House within 60 calendar days. Amends Rule XIV (Order and Priority of Business) of the Rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Promote Workforce Development for the Advancement of Manufacturers Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow manufacturing employers located in the United States a business-related tax credit for the manufacturing training expen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for consideration of the bill (H.B. 5) to reform the process by which Federal agencies analyze and formulate new regulations and guidance documents, to clarify the nature of judicial review of agency interpretations, to ensure complete anal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | CORE Act Creating Opportunities for Rural Economies Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require at least 5% of the new markets tax credit limitation to be allocated to community development entities in connection with certain investment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB408 | Intro
Sine Die | American Future Healthcare Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to health savings accounts (HSAs), to: repeal the requirement that an individual making a tax deductible contribution to an HSA be covered by a high deduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB415 | Intro
Sine Die | GEAR UP for Counseling This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase requirements for grant recipients under the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). Specifically...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Promote Startups Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the maximum tax deduction for business start-up expenditures from $5,000 to $15,000 and to increase the deduction for the organizational expenditures of corporations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR39 | Intro
Sine Die | Electing a Member to a certain standing Committee of the House of Representatives. Elects a specified Member to the House Committee on House Administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. Elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Armed Services, and (2) the Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Early Pell Promise Act This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Department of Education to carry out a program of grants to state educational agencies under which a student who is in eighth g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Raising Accountability to Improve School Excellence Act This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to: (1) require a charter school grant application to include additional information and assurances related to oversight of au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
