| 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 |
| HB309 | Engross
Sine Die | National Clinical Care Commission Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a National Clinical Care Commission to evaluate and recommend solutions regarding bett...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Preserving Jobs in the Oilfield Act of 2017 7 This bill directs the Department of Transportation to ensure that, with respect to maximum hours of service for drivers, on-duty time does not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site for op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Justice for Yazidis Act This bill states that Syrian and Iraqi nationals who are members of a religious minority in their country of origin: (1) shall be classified as refugees of special humanitarian concern, (2) shall be eligible for priority-2 ref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Refusing to Assist Paying for United Nations Actions Against Israel Act This bill prohibits funds from being made available for U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) or to any affiliated body of the U.N. until Security Council Resolution 23...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | IRGC Terrorist Designation Act This bill expresses the sense of Congress that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization and should be so designated by the Department of State. State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of State to report to specified congressional committees within 60 days indicating: (1) whether the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for designation as a fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | January 8th National Memorial Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish the January 8th National Memorial in Tucson, Arizona, as an affiliated area of the National Park System in commemoration of the shooting of Congresswoman ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory Responsibility for our Economy Act of 2017 This bill sets forth general requirements for the federal regulatory system, including the protection of public health, welfare, safety, and the environment, the promotion of predictability in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Housing Accountability Act of 2017 This bill amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide statutory authority for the requirement for an entity receiving low-income housing assistance payments for existing public housing units to maintain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a full deduction in the current taxable year of the cost of replanting lost or damaged citrus plants. The taxpayer must own an equity interest of at least 50% i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Counterterror Alert Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to include in the national instant criminal background check system (i.e., the NICS database) information about an individual who is or has been under a federal terror...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB384 | Intro
Sine Die | End the Congressional Revolving Door Act This bill prohibits a former Member of Congress or former senior congressional employee who is a registered lobbyist, and entitled to compensation as such, from being eligible for any benefits beginning after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| SB64 | 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 180 days permitting individuals to impor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB385 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Expedited Funds Availability Act to clarify the application of that Act to American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. This bill amends the Expedited Funds Availability Act to apply the Act, which governs bank deposit holds, to Amer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Working Parents Tax Relief Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from $5,000 to $7,500 (adjusted for inflation after 2017) the amount of employer-provided dependent care assistance that an employee may exclude from gross inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Hearing Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the $200 transfer tax on firearm silencers, and (2) treat any person who acquires or possesses a firearm silencer as meeting any registration or licensing req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 719 Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and United States Courthouse". This bill designates the federal building and U.S. co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Oil Spill Prevention Act This bill address issues related to preventing and responding to oil spills. This bill amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to extend the moratorium on oil and gas leasing in certain areas in the Gulf ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-09
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
