| HR107 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs in the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress. Provides amounts for the expenses of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Administration Committee |
| SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017 This bill prohibits federal government officials from entering into or enforcing a settlement agreement on behalf of the United States (resolving a civil action, a plea agreement, a deferred prosecution agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR91 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 44) disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior relating to Bureau of Land Management regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HJR68 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5 of the United States Code of a rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to standards for measurement and reporting of gas removed or sold from Federal and Indian lands...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB322 | Intro
Sine Die | Pet and Women Safety Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal criminal code to broaden the definition of stalking to include conduct that causes a person to experience a reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to his or her pet. Additionall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| HR101 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Ways and Means in the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress. Provides amounts for the expenses of the House Committee on Ways and Means for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Administration Committee |
| HB891 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Transit Modernization Act of 2017 This bill repeals requirements that condition certain financial assistance for public transportation projects upon employee protective arrangements approved by the Secretary of Labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB634 | Intro
Sine Die | Election Assistance Commission Termination Act This bill amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to terminate the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), including the EAC Standards Board and the EAC Board of Advisors. The Office of Management and Bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 6 - 3. |
| SB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2017 This bill restores and revives the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009, and any regulations promulgated pursuant to it, as if the Act had not expired after 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB903 | Intro
Sine Die | To restrict funding for the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and for other purposes. This bill declares that United Nations Security Council Resolution 2310 (September 23, 2016) does not obligate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to restrict funding for the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and for other purposes. This bill declares that United Nations Security Council Resolution 2310 (September 23, 2016) does not obliga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act of 2017 This bill repeals certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former militar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB133 | Intro
Sine Die | To reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer financing of Presidential election campaigns. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate: (1) the taxpayer election to designate $3 of income tax liability for financing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 5 - 3. |
| HR109 | Intro
Sine Die | Deploring the actions of the Palestinian Authority to join the International Criminal Court and undertake legal action through the Court against Israel. Declares that the House of Representatives views lawfare (the abuse of law to achieve political a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB921 | Intro
Sine Die | Community Trust Act of 2017 This bill nullifies Executive Order 13768, entitled "Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States," beginning on January 25, 2017, and prohibits the use of any federal funds to implement, administer, enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB966 | Intro
Sine Die | TIGER CUBS Act Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery for Cities Underfunded Because of Size Act of 2017 This bill provides $500 million in supplemental FY2017 appropriations to the Department of Transportation for national infrastruc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Environmental Protectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Universal Savings Account Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow for the establishment of Universal Savings Accounts. These accounts shall be tax-exempt and may be opened by any individual who is at least 18 years of age and a U.S. c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Veterans Affairs Employee Fairness Act of 2017 This bill repeals provisions excluding any matter or question concerning professional conduct or competence, peer review, or the establishment, determination, or adjustment of employee comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB971 | Intro
Sine Die | Surviving Spouse Contracting Preference Act This bill treats a small business owned by the surviving spouse of member of the Armed Forces killed in the line of duty as a small business concern owned and controlled by a service-disabled veteran for pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Election Integrity Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to make it unlawful for a chief state election administration official to take active part in political management or in a political campaign with respe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Administration Committee |
| HB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Universal Savings Account Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow for the establishment of Universal Savings Accounts. These accounts shall be tax-exempt and may be opened by any individual who is at least 18 years of age and a U.S. c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB926 | Intro
Sine Die | ASPIRE Act American Science Principal and Interest Reduction and Employment Act This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Department of Education to establish a program to cancel 25% of the outst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HR95 | 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; (2) the Budget; (3) the Judiciary; (4) Natural Resources; (5) Oversight and Government Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB960 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax-exempt financing of certain government-owned buildings. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the tax-exempt financing of certain government-owned buildings by expanding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB905 | Intro
Sine Die | You Own Devices Act This bill amends federal copyright law to allow the owner of a machine or other product operated in any part by a computer program to transfer an authorized copy of the computer program, or the right to obtain such copy, when the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SR53 | Intro
Sine Die | An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Armed Services. Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Armed Services from March 1, 2017, through February 28, 2019. Limits expenses of such committee to specified amount...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| HB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Food Donation Act of 2017 This bill amends the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to expand the liability protections for the donation of food. The bill expands the liability protections to include donations of an apparently fit grocery pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| SB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Buildings Renewal Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the tax-exempt financing of certain government-owned buildings by expanding the definition of "exempt facility bond" to include bonds used for qualified governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Common Sense Housing Investment Act of 2017 apply the savings from the enactment of this bill to the Housing Trust Fund, rental assistance programs, and the Public Housing Capital Fund. The Department of Housing and Urban Development must revise regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB896 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt amounts paid for aircraft management services from the excise taxes imposed on transportation by air. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the excise tax on transportation of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Responding to Idaho's Judicial Emergency Act of 2017 This bill requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the district of Idaho.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
| SB319 | Intro
Sine Die | Helping Veterans Exposed to Burn Pits Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a center of excellence in the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, and rehabilitation of health conditions relating to exposure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HJR32 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to give States the authority to repeal Federal rules and regulations when the repeal is agreed to by the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States. This joint resolution proposes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB758 | Intro
Sine Die | GI Internship Program Act This bill directs theDepartment of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a career transition internship program to match individuals who are eligible for veterans' educational assistance with employers to: (1) provide such indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB464 | Intro
Sine Die | Cameras in the Courtroom Act This bill requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
| HB881 | Intro
Sine Die | AMP Act Allocation for Music Producers Act This bill amends federal copyright law to require a collective designated by the Copyright Royalty Judges to implement a policy providing for the acceptance of instructions (referred to as a "letter of direc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB871 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt premiums paid on non-cash-value property and casualty insurance from the taxes to enforce reporting on certain foreign accounts. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt premiums paid o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Employee Fairness and Relief Act of 2017 This bill permits a health insurer that had in effect health insurance coverage in the small group market in 2013 to offer that coverage outside of health insurance exchanges. That coverage is treated as a gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB616 | Intro
Sine Die | For the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture. Provides for the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Provider Payment Sunshine Act This bill amends title XI (General Provisions) of the Social Security Act to expand reporting requirements related to the transparency of physician ownership or investment interests. Under current law, a manufacturer of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | One Subject at a Time Act This bill requires: (1) each bill or joint resolution to embrace no more than one subject, and (2) the subject to be clearly and descriptively expressed in the measure's title. An appropriations bill may not contain any gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| SB320 | Intro
Sine Die | NextGen Accountability Act This bill amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to direct the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish annual Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) performance goals for each of the nat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2017 Kate's Law This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase penalties applicable to aliens who unlawfully reenter the United States after being removed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB489 | Intro
Sine Die | No Religious Registry Act of 2017 This bill prohibits U.S. government officers or employees from collecting information or utilizing a registry or database to classify or surveil on the basis of religious affiliation: (1) U.S. nationals, (2) aliens l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Accountability and Inspections for Dining Service Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide for annual inspections to ensure that VA medical facility kitchens and food service areas meet private hospital kitch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB814 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify that the estate of a deceased veteran may receive certain accrued benefits upon the death of the veteran, and for other purposes. This bill provides for the payment of certain accrued benefits to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB358 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition. This bill amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions related to the interstate transportation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB462 | Intro
Sine Die | REG Act of 2017 Reforming Executive Guidance Act of 2017 This bill requires guidance documents of federal agencies to be considered rules that are subject to the congressional review process. A "guidance document" is a statement of general applicabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HR93 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Natural Resources in the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress. Provides amounts for expenses of the House Committee on Natural Resources for the 115th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
To House Administration Committee |
