| HB145 | Intro
Sine Die | CLEAN Act Citizen Legislature Anti-Corruption Reform Act This bill amends the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) to exclude Members of Congress, except the Vice President, from further CSRS and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Choices in Education Act of 2017 No Hungry Kids Act Official Titles Official Titles - House of Representatives Official Title as Introduced To distribute Federal funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers for eligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Education And The Workforce Committee |
| HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Employees and Retirees in Municipal Bankruptcies Act of 2017 This bill amends federal bankruptcy law to: (1) heighten criteria with respect to a municipality's eligibility for municipal bankruptcy, and (2) revise provisions related to judi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HB604 | Intro
Sine Die | State Refugee Security Act of 2017 This bill directs the Office of Refugee Resettlement to notify the state agency responsible for coordinating the placement or resettlement of an alien refugee not later than 21 days before the alien's arrival in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act This bill prohibits a state or local government from receiving federal financial assistance for a minimum of one year if it restricts or prohibits a government entity or official from: (1) sending to or receivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | CHOICE Act Consumer Health Options and Insurance Competition Enhancement Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to offer, throughout the United States, a public health insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HR41 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting a uniform adoption process for foster youth. Supports a uniform adoption process of children from foster care. Promotes the enactment by all states of the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children to ensure more children in the Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal judicial code to: convert certain temporary bankruptcy judges to permanent bankruptcy judges and authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges in Delaware and Michigan; convert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HB598 | Intro
Sine Die | AIM Act of 2017 Airplane Impacts Mitigation Act of 2017 This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to enter into an agreement with an eligible institution of higher education to conduct a study of the health impacts of airplane flig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on Aviation |
| HB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Savings for Seniors Act of 2017 This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection Acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on Social Security |
| HB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Redistricting and Voter Protection Act of 2017 This bill requires a state that enacts a congressional redistricting plan prior to the next decennial census and apportionment of Representatives to obtain a declaratory judgment or preclearance from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Student Loan Repayment Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a work opportunity tax credit for employers who hire a qualified student loan repayer. A "qualified student loan repayer" is any individual who is certified by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB602 | Intro
Sine Die | To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Eastvale, California. This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code applicable to the area encompassing only Eastvale, California...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| SR17 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution to constitute the minority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. Designates the minority party's membership on the Senate Committee on Rules and Administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S365; text as passed Senate: CR S362) |
| SJR6 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the United States or any state from denying or abridg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 TITLE I--INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (Sec. 101) This bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of: the Office of the Director of National ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 4. |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017 This bill makes permanent the prohibition on the use of federal funds, including funds in the budget of the District of Columbia, for abortion or health coverage that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Court-Appointed Guardian Accountability and Senior Protection Act This bill amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services and Elder Justice) of the Social Security Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services to award grant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR16 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. Designates the majority party's membership on the Senate Committee on Rules and Administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S365; text as passed Senate: CR S362) |
| SR15 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Mexico City policy should be permanently established. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President should immediately reapply and consider improving the Mexico City Policy (require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB39 | Pass | TALENT Act of 2017 Tested Ability to Leverage Exceptional National Talent Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill codifies provisions establishing the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program (originally established pursuant to Executive Order 13704) to encour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Became Public Law No: 115-1. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB84 | Pass | A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces. (Sec. 1) This bill allows the first person,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
Became Public Law No: 115-2. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Short on Competition Act This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize importation of life-saving drugs for which there is, or is likely to be, a shortage. For a drug to be im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to ensure that certain Federal public works and infrastructure projects use materials produced in the United States, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish a report that identifies all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act This bill amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to make the E-Verify program permanent. The bill requires: (1) federal agencies, contractors, and critical emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB595 | Intro
Sine Die | Bailout Prevention Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Reserve Act to declare a borrower ineligible to borrow from any emergency lending program or facility unless the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) and all federal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2017 This bill amends the the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise employer and government requirements regarding visas for nonimmigrant aliens rated H-1B (specialty occupation) and L-1 (intracompany transfer to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Leadership PAC Limitation Act This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the conversion of leadership PAC funds to personal use. A leadership PAC is a political action committee (other than a political committee of a polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To House Administration Committee |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Global Trade Accountability Act of 2017 This bill amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require congressional approval of unilateral trade actions. Such actions may take effect without congressional approval for one 90-day period if the President: determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act of 2017 This bill establishes in the Treasury the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund from which the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to make one payment of $25,000 to each individual who, between D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB43 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the use of Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to pursue independent study programs at certain educational institutions that are not institutions of higher learning. This bill permits veterans to use D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act This bill requires the Comptroller General, for each of FY2018-FY2020, to: (1) review the budget requests for the Department of Veterans Affairs' Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | HERO Transition from Battlespace to Workplace Act of 2017 Helping to Encourage Real Opportunity for Veterans Transitioning from Battlespace to Workplace Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business-related tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Act This bill directs the Department of Labor to give homeless veterans with dependent children service priority under homeless veterans reintegration programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Build a Better VA Act This bill prohibits funds from being appropriated for any fiscal year for a major medical facility lease unless the House and Senate Veterans Committees adopt resolutions approving the lease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding Care for Veterans Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop a plan to expand the scope of VA's research and education on, and delivery and integration of, complementary and alternative medicine services. The V...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act This bill amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require a program under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides chiropractic care and service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB92 | Intro
Sine Die | CHAMPVA Children's Protection Act of 2017 This bill increases from 23 to 26 the maximum age of eligibility for certain dependent children of veterans for medical care under CHAMPVA (the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veteran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' Education Equity Act This bill provides that the monthly housing allowance under the Department of Veterans Affairs Post-9/11 educational assistance program shall be based on the location of the campus where an individual physically partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2017 This bill makes the following Department of Veterans Affairs programs and services permanent: (1) homeless veterans reintegration programs, (2) referral and counseling services for veterans at risk of homelessnes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Highly Rural Veteran Transportation Program Extension Act This bill amends the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 to reauthorize through FY2018 a grant program to provide innovative transportation options to veterans in highl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Help Hire Our Heroes Act This bill amends the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 to make the veterans retraining assistance program permanent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security Safety Dividend Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to disburse a $250 cash payment to recipients of Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits (under title XVI of the Social Security Act)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB90 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing Veterans Overdue Care Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out major medical facility leases in specified amounts for: outpatient clinics in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Daytona Beach, Gainesville, and Ocala,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB272 | Intro
Sine Die | Back to Basics Job Creation Act of 2017 This bill amends title XX (Block Grants to State for Social Services) of the Social Security Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to states, Indians tribes, or local governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Subcommittee on Human Resources |
| HB269 | Intro
Sine Die | Look-back Elimination Act of 2017 This bill amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to extend federal funding to states for maintenance payments on behalf of each foster child, regardless of whether ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-18
To House Subcommittee on Human Resources |
| HB78 | Engross
Sine Die | SEC Regulatory Accountability Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to: before issuing a regulation under the securities laws, identify the nature and source of the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Prevention Act This bill repeals the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a program of risk corridors for 2014, 2015, and 2016 und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Terror Intelligence Improvement Act of 2017 This bill requires each federal department or agency to provide to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) information about a person who is or has been under a federal terrorism investigation. The FBI an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB547 | Intro
Sine Die | National Infrastructure Development Bank Act of 2017 This bill establishes the National Infrastructure Development Bank as a wholly owned government corporation. The bank's board of directors shall be responsible for monitoring and overseeing energy,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
