| HB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2017 This bill requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to submit a biannual report to Congress on the number of proposed firearm transfers where: (1) a licensed gun dealer submitted a backgrou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to require any health care practitioner who is present when a child is born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion to: (1) exercise the same degree of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Resettlement Accountability National Security Prioritization Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the admission of covered aliens into the United States for four years unless Congress passes a joint resolution giving the Department of Homeland Security au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Effective and Humane Treatment of Youth Act of 2017 Kalief's Law This legislation amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG) program for FY2018-FY2022. It requires a sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Resettlement Accountability National Security Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the admission of alien refugees into the United States unless Congress passes a joint resolution giving the Department of Homeland Security authority to resume admitting th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HJR20 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of consecutive terms that a Member of Congress may serve. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting a person from serving more than two fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-12
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HJR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets for the Government. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total receipts fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB400 | 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] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB306 | Engross
Sine Die | Energy Efficient Government Technology Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 by requiring each federal agency to coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Department of Energy (DOE), and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB239 | Engross
Sine Die | Support for Rapid Innovation Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support the research, development, testing, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB349 | Intro
Sine Die | For the relief of Corina de Chalup Turcinovic. Provides for the relief of Corina de Chalup Turcinovic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms a Representative or Senator may serve. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting Members of the Senate to two terms and Members of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HCR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing support for temporary protected status for Haitian nationals currently residing in the United States, and for other purposes. Expresses support for: (1) the granting of temporary protected status to Haitian nationals currently residing in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | King Cove Road Land Exchange Act This bill declares that, if the state of Alaska offers to convey to the Department of the Interior 43,093 acres of state-owned land, Interior shall convey to Alaska, in exchange, 206 acres of federal land within the I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR6 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting Members of the House of Representatives to three term...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish a process to vacate convictions and expunge arrests for criminal offenses committed by trafficking victims that directly result from or relate to having ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HJR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total federal expenditures for a year from exceeding the average annual federal revenue collected in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HR40 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for consideration of the bill (H.B. 78) to improve the consideration by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the costs and benefits of its regulations and orders; providing for consideration of the bill (H.B. 238) to reauthorize the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States granting Congress the authority to enact laws limiting the number of terms that Representatives and Senators may serve. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Water Conservation Rebate Tax Parity Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax exclusion for energy conservation subsidies provided by public utilities to exclude from gross income subsidies provided (directly or indirectly): (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Consumer Financial Protection Board Act of 2017 This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to specify that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shall be managed by a board of directors rather than by a director and deputy dire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | CAPITALS Act Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity Asset Protection of Infrastructure under Terrorist Attack Logistical Structure or CAPITALS Act The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must report to Congress regarding the feasibility of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies |
| HR45 | 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) Appropriations; (3) Armed Services; (4) the Budget; (5) Education and the Workforce; (6)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB432 | Intro
Sine Die | Small Business Tax Credit Accessibility Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the small employer health care insurance tax credit, to: (1) revise the definition of "eligible small employer" to mean an employer with not more ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently Repeal the Estate Tax Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the federal estate tax, effective for estates of decedents dying after December 31, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR16 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting local law enforcement agencies in their continued work to serve our communities, and supporting their use of body worn cameras to promote transparency to protect both citizens and officers alike. Recognizes law enforcement agencies and off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HJR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving compensation during a fiscal year unless both Houses of Congress have agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HJR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of consecutive terms that a Member of Congress may serve. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting a person from serving more than two co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HCR3 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing former United States Federal Judge Frank Minis Johnson, Jr., for his role in the civil rights movement. Recognizes former federal judge Frank Minis Johnson, Jr., for his role in the civil rights movement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| 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 |
| HB240 | Engross
Sine Die | Leveraging Emerging Technologies Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) engage with innovative and emerging technology developers and firms, including technology-based small businesses and startup ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB288 | Engross
Sine Die | Small Business Broadband Deployment Act (Sec. 2) This bill exempts for five years any small business broadband Internet access service provider with no more than 250,000 subscribers from the enhancements to the transparency rule of the Federal Commun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| 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 |
| HB79 | Engross
Sine Die | HALOS Act Helping Angels Lead Our Startups Act (Sec. 3) This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise Regulation D, which exempts certain offerings from SEC registration requirements but prohibits general solicitation or ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-11
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| 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 |
