| SB1800 | Engross
Sine Die | Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) submit to Congress, make publicly available, and biennially update an Asset Management Report that describes the Bureau of Reclamation's efforts to: (1) maintain i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-02
Held at the desk. |
| SB684 | Engross
Sine Die | Mni Wiconi Project Act Amendments of 2013 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to develop plans for completing, and to enter into agreements with specified agency heads to complete, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-02
Held at the desk. |
| SB609 | Engross
Sine Die | San Juan County Federal Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, on request of the plaintiffs in the case Blancett v. United States Department of the Interior, et al., in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-22
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 541. |
| SB354 | Engross
Sine Die | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate reported version is repeated here.) Oregon Caves Revitalization Act of 2013 - (Sec. 3) Redesignates the Oregon Caves National Monument and lands identifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-22
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-713. |
| SB363 | Engross
Sine Die | Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2013 - Amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to allow the Department of the Interior to award noncompetitive leases on up to 640 acres of federal land for geothermal development if: (1) the land is available f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-22
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 540. |
| SB311 | Engross
Sine Die | Lower Mississippi River Area Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special resource study that evaluates the national significance of a specified study area located in Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, and the feasibility of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-22
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 539. |
| SB1237 | Engross
Sine Die | Omnibus Territories Act of 2013 - (Sec. 3) Extends through December 31, 2019, a system for allocating and determining the number, terms, and conditions of permits issued to prospective employers for nonimmigrant workers performing work during the tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-19
To House Subcommittee on Energy and Power |
| HCR125 | Engross
Sine Die | Declares that when the House adjourns on: (1) any legislative day from Friday, December 12, 2014, through Wednesday, December 31, 2014, it stand adjourned until 1 p.m. on Friday, January 2, 2015; and (2) the legislative day of Friday, January 2, 2015...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-17
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HCR124 | Engross
Sine Die | (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to amend the enrollment of H.B.5771 to cite Division B of such Act as the Stephen Beck, Jr., ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-17
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SB1744 | Engross
Sine Die | Security Clearance Accountability, Reform, and Enhancement Act - (Sec. 3) Deems an an agency employee to be unfit for federal employment if the agency determines that such employee has engaged in misconduct affecting the integrity of a background inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-16
Held at the desk. |
| HB2866 | Engross
Sine Die | Boys Town Centennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 50,000 $5 gold coins, 350,000 $1 silver coins, and 300,000 half-dollar clad coins to commemorate the centennial of the founding of Father Flan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-16
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SB706 | Engross
Sine Die | Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2013 - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to prohibit the manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance in schedule I or II, flunitrazepam, or a listed chemical by individuals having r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-16
Held at the desk. |
| HCR122 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 83 to amend the long title to read "Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-15
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HCR123 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 3979 (Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015) to change specified categories of the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB5803 | Engross
Sine Die | To require the Secretary of the Interior to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to address the energy needs of the insular areas of the United States and the Freely Associated States through the development of energy action pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
Received in the Senate. |
| HCR121 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in the enrollment of H.B. 3979, to revise the official title of such bill to read: "An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2015 for military activities of the Department of Defense, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SB2983 | Engross
Sine Die | U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Improvement Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Maritime Administration to: accept a gift of money from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation, Inc. in order to renovate Melvill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
Held at the desk. |
| HB5699 | Engross
Sine Die | John Muir National Historic Site Expansion Act - Authorizes the Department of the Interior to acquire by donation approximately 44 acres of land to include in the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-12
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5810 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the United States Cotton Futures Act to exclude cotton future contracts involving cotton that is grown outside of the United States and tendered for delivery from coverage under the Act, including the requirement that the cotton be classified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5742 | Engross
Sine Die | Soledad Canyon Settlement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to offer to cancel Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mineral contracts CA-20139 and CA-22901 (located in Soledad Canyon, California) and compensate the contract holder for the cancel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5656 | Engross
Sine Die | Global Food Security Act of 2014 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, in providing assistance to implement the Global Food Security Strategy, should: coordinate federal efforts to implement the Strategy, utilize open and streaml...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Received in the Senate. |
| SB2822 | Engross
Sine Die | Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to study and report to Congress on matters relating to the interring of veterans' unclaimed remains in national cemeteries under the control of the Nati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| SB2828 | Engross
Sine Die | Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 - (Sec. 3) States that it is U.S. policy to assist the government of Ukraine in restoring its sovereignty and territorial integrity in order to deter the government of the Russian Federation from further destabiliz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| SB2785 | Engross
Sine Die | Safe and Secure Drinking Water Protection Act of 2014 - Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and publish within 180 days a health advisory including recommendations on: (1) the level of microcystins (toxins produced by freshw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| HB4573 | Engross
Sine Die | International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking - (Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish within the Child Exploitation Investigations Unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the Ang...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 645. |
| SB2244 | Engross
Sine Die | Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Title I: Extension of Terrorism Insurance Program - (Sec. 101) Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) to extend the Terrorism Insurance Program through December 31, 2020, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill. |
| SB1535 | Engross
Sine Die | Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act - Amends the federal judicial code to include among the exceptions to U.S. jurisdictional immunity of foreign states any statutory or common law tort claim arising out of an act of extrajudicial killing, airc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-11
Held at the desk. |
| HB5781 | Engross
Sine Die | California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014 - Title I: California Emergency Drought Relief - (Sec. 102) Grants the Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior (Secretaries) emergency authority, subject to existing priorities of individuals and entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB5764 | Engross
Sine Die | Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for FY2015-FY2019. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5701 | Engross
Sine Die | Western Oregon Indian Tribal Lands Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to accept title to any additional acres of real property located within the boundaries of the original 1857 reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Received in the Senate. |
| HB5471 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to revise the treatment of affiliate transactions that may be exempt from clearing requirements to authorize such an exemption only if the affiliate enters into the swap to hed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB2614 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, with respect to rollovers to a traditional or Roth individual retirement account (IRA) of payments to qualified airline employees in commercial airline carrier bankruptcy cases, to: (1) extend the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Held at the desk. |
| HCR107 | Engross
Sine Die | Condemns the use of innocent civilians as human shields. Calls on the international community to recognize and condemn Hamas's use of human shields. Places responsibility for the rocket attacks against Israel on Hamas and other terrorist organizati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB5086 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the Chief Standing Bear Trail extending approximately 550 miles from Ponca City, Oklahoma, thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB5059 | Engross
Sine Die | Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act or the Clay Hunt SAV Act - (Sec. 2) Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) arrange for an independent third party evaluation, at least annually, of the VA's mental health care an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Received in the Senate. |
| HB1241 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), in any land exchange involving the conveyance of certain National Forest System land within the boundaries of Inyo National Forest in California, to accept for acquisition in such exchange certain non-fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 643. |
| HB885 | Engross
Sine Die | San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2013 - Modifies the boundary of the Park to include approximately 137 acres of additional identified land. Bars the use of condemnation authority by the Secretary for the acquisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 642. |
| HB5794 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16105 Swingley Ridge Road in Chesterfield, Missouri, as the "Sgt. Zachary M. Fisher Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5759 | Engross
Sine Die | Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014 - Prohibits the executive branch of the government from: exempting or deferring from removal, by executive order, regulation, or any other means, categories of aliens considered under the im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 626. |
| HB5385 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 55 Grasso Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri, as the "Sgt. Amanda N. Pinson Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB5146 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 700 Grant Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the "Joseph F. Weis Jr. United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2520 | Engross
Sine Die | FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to: (1) require federal agencies to make agency records that can be disclosed under such Act available for public inspection in an electronic format, (2) limit the authority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
Held at the desk. |
| SB1447 | Engross
Sine Die | New Mexico Navajo Water Settlement Technical Corrections Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to expand the current authorization for the construction or rehabilitation and operation and maintenance of conjunctive use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To House Subcommittee on Water and Power |
| HB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 501 East Court Street in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HCR120 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on December 10, 2014, for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the World War II members of the Civil Air Patrol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SJR45 | Engross
Sine Die | Reappoints David M. Rubenstein as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-08
To House Administration Committee |
| HB5769 | Engross
Sine Die | Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB2523 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW, in Chisholm, Minnesota, as the "James L. Oberstar Memorial Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To House Oversight And Government Reform Committee |
| HB5714 | Engross
Sine Die | Pest Management Records Modernization Act - Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize commercial applicators of pesticides to create, retain, submit, and convey a pesticide application-related record, report, data...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| HB5629 | Engross
Sine Die | Strengthening Domestic Nuclear Security Act of 2014 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Director for Domestic Nuclear Detection: (1) in carrying out the mission of the Domestic Nuclear Detention Office, to provide support for pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-03
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
