| SB156 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft. This bill directs the Internal Revenue Servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Terrorism Survivors Student Loan Deferment Act This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow a borrower who is a victim of a terrorist attack to defer (i.e., suspend repayments on) student loans made unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SJR5 | Intro
Sine Die | A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment. This joint resolution eliminates the time limit for ratification of the equal rights amendment (prohibits discrimination on account of sex) proposed to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Hurricane Forecast Improvement Act of 2017 This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to maintain a project to improve hurricane forecasting. The project's goal is to develop and extend accurate hurricane forecasts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to remove or demote a VA employee based on performance or misconduct. The VA may remove such individual from the civil service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Combating BDS Act of 2017 This bill allows a state or local government to adopt and enforce measures to divest its assets from, prohibit investment of its assets in, or restrict contracting with: (1) an entity that engages in a commerce- or investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2017 This bill declares that a Washington, DC statute that prohibits the killing of wild birds and wild animals in DC does not authorize the DC Council, Mayor, or any DC governmental or regulatory authority to proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB583 | Intro
Sine Die | To direct the Federal Communications Commission to revoke certain changes to the ownership reporting requirements for noncommercial educational broadcast stations. This bill directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke changes to FCC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms Manufacturers and Dealers Protection Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Department of Justice, or any other federal agency from using funds to carry out Operation Choke Point or any other program d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2017 This bill directs the Internal Revenue Service to make available to taxpayers who have turned age 65 at the close of the taxable year a new federal income tax Form 1040SR (similar to the existing Form 1040EZ). ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Let Seniors Work Act of 2017 This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the federal payroll tax with respect to the earnings of an individual who has attained retireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential Innovation Fellows Program Act of 2017 Presidential Innovation Fellows Program Act of 2017 This bill establishes in the General Services Administration (GSA) the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program to enable exceptional individuals w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP code for particular communities. This bill requires the United States Postal Service, by September 30, 2017, to designate a single, unique ZIP code for each of the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Educational Opportunities Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax credit for charitable contributions to a scholarship granting organization. The bill allows a maximum credit amount of $4,500 ($2,250 for a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Caregiver Program Information Dissemination Act of 2017 This bill requires pre-separation counseling for members of the Armed Forces to include a description of Department of Veterans Affairs family caregiver assistance and support services, includin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SCR5 | Intro
Sine Die | A concurrent resolution affirming the importance of religious freedom as a fundamental human right that is essential to a free society and protected for all people of the United States under the Constitution of the United States, and recognizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal criminal code to declare that any person who knowingly engages in any scheme or artifice to defraud an individual of veterans' benefits, or in connection with obtaining veter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring the Reliability of Our Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Act This bill directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to maintain secondary backup capability for each class of hurricane reconnaissance, research, surveillance, and respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Investor Choice Act of 2017 This bill amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to prohibit a broker, dealer, funding portal, municipal-securities dealer, or investment adviser from entering into, modifying, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB238 | Engross
Sine Die | Commodity End-User Relief Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2021, and otherwise revises provisions related to, operations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The CFTC is authorized to require that certain property of the bankruptcy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require the President to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and to make that Agreement ineligible for expedited consideration by Congress. This bill directs the President to provide to the governments of Australia, Brunei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Countering Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israel Activities at the United Nations Act of 2017 This bill requires the President to direct the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (U.N.) to use U.S. influence at the U.N. to work toward reducing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Miners Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) to transfer certain funds to the Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan and the 1974 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Pension Plan to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | RAISE Act Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees Act This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to allow an employer to pay an employee higher wages, pay, or other compensation than provided for in a collective bargaining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | HUD Inspection Process and Enforcement Reform Act of 2017 This bill allows the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to remove certain HUD employees from civil service or to reduce their grade or pay for misconduct or performance. HUD emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Muhammad Ali Commemorative Coin Act This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue commemorative coins that emblemize the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali. Surcharges received from the sale of these coins shall be paid to: (1) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | HELP for Coal Miners Health Care Act of 2017 Helping Ensure Long-Term Protection for Coal Miners Health Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) to transfer certain funds to the Multiemployer He...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the final rules relating to the listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and the State of Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This bill requires the Department of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-17
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB556 | Intro
Sine Die | BLUE Act of 2017 Blue Line Use Exception Act of 2017 This bill directs the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to grant an exception to Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices provisions relating to road line marking standards to allow for the us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-14
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB178 | Intro
Sine Die | Religious Worker Visa Reciprocity Act of 2017 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit, as of October 1, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from approving a petition for classification of an alien as a special imm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB258 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit the use of United States Government funds to provide assistance to Al Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and to countries supporting those organizations, and for other purposes. This bill proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H477) |
| HB188 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend to 2027 the production certificate program that allows refunds of duties on certain articles produced in United States insular possessions. This bill amends the Harmonized Tariff ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| HB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Sarah's Law This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the detention of an alien: (1) who was not inspected and admitted into the United States, who held a revoked nonimmigrant visa (or other nonimmigrant admission document), or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Teacher Victims' Family Assistance Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Education to provide assistance to the immediate families of teachers or other elementary and secondary school employees who are killed by another person's violent act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Family First Prevention Services Act of 2017 This bill amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSAct) regarding, among other matters: (1) mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Human Resources |
| HB561 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Job Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to redefine "applicable large employer," for purposes of the mandate requiring employers to provide he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB465 | Intro
Sine Die | Water Quality Improvement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) by requiring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish an integrated planning and permitting process f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| HB529 | Intro
Sine Die | 529 and ABLE Account Improvement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax treatment of qualified tuition programs (known as 529 plans) and ABLE accounts. (Tax-favored ABLE [Achieving a Better Life Experience] accounts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB542 | Intro
Sine Die | Better Accounting for Medicaid Costs Act of 2017 This bill amends title XI (General Provisions) of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to follow rulemaking procedures with respect to certain Medicaid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB523 | Intro
Sine Die | Debt Transparency and Accountability Act This bill requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide a report to Congress prior to any date on which Treasury anticipates the public debt will reach the statutory limit. The Secretary must appear before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Stephanie Tubbs Jones Assets for Independence Reauthorization Act of 2017 This bill reauthorizes through FY2022 and otherwise amends the Assets for Independence Act, which provides for demonstration projects to fund individual development accounts (I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Human Resources |
| HB580 | Intro
Sine Die | Muhammad Ali Legacy Act This bill directs the Department of State to award grants to one or more eligible organizations that: (1) are established to promote global respect, understanding, and communication and to encourage character and leadership de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Improving Oversight and Accountability in Medicaid Non-DSH Supplemental Payments Act This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to: (1) issue guidance to states that identif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB571 | Intro
Sine Die | To permit members of the House of Representatives to donate used computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools designated by the members. This bill amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1987 to allow computers and related ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Administration Committee |
| HR51 | Intro
Sine Die | Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. Elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Education and the Workforce; (3) Foreign Affairs; (4) Homeland Security; (5) the Judicia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | For the relief of Ibrahim Parlak. Provides for the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Corey Jones Act This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require an applicant under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program to certify that no law enforcement agency that receives COPS grant funds all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB515 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy Efficient Manufactured Home Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a program to provide grants and loans to assist low-income owners of manufactured homes constructed before December 31, 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB468 | Intro
Sine Die | Foreign Spill Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to make foreign facilities that are located offshore and outside the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) liable for removal costs and damages that result from oil spills th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation |
| HB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Solar Villages Initiative Act This bill authorizes the President, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, to provide assistance for renewable energy projects in developing countries to increase the availability of credit, savings, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-13
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
