| HB6256 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide temporary visitation to spouses of United States citizens. This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a non-immigrant W-visa category for an alien who: (1) is, and has been for at least 180 days, the spouse of a U.S....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB6279 | Intro
Sine Die | Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2016 This bill allows a beneficiary of a Holocaust-era life, dowry, education, annuity, property, or other insurance policy to bring a civil action in a U.S. district court against the insurer for the covered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB6243 | Intro
Sine Die | Comprehensive Fentanyl Control Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6285 | Intro
Sine Die | Canadian Snowbird Visa Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to admit into the United States as a nonimmigrant visitor for a period not to exceed 240 days during any single 365-day p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB6268 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing Gangs and Recidivism Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6292 | Intro
Sine Die | Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6283 | Intro
Sine Die | Truth in Regulations Act of 2016 This bill requires each executive agency to: (1) have written procedures for the approval of significant guidance documents by each appropriate senior agency official; and (2) maintain on its website a list of, links ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HB6293 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair SHARE Act of 2016 Fair Salary History Alternatives for Responsible Employment Act of 2016 This bill makes it an unlawful employment practice for certain employers to seek information concerning a job applicant's salary history. An exception is e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB6252 | Intro
Sine Die | Ending Sanctuary Cities Act of 2016 This bill provides that a state or local government is an ineligible jurisdiction if it: (1) restricts any government entity or official from sending to or receiving from the Immigration and Naturalization Service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-21
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB6096 | Intro
Sine Die | Arla Harrell Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reconsider and make a new determination regarding each claim for disability compensation in connection with exposure to mustard gas or lewisite during active military, nav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB6273 | Intro
Sine Die | VA Health Care Provider Education Debt Relief Act of 2016 This bill increases the annual and five-year caps on the amount of education debt reduction available to Veterans Health Administration health care professionals under the Department of Vetera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6099 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Lands Telecommunications Act This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to establish separate special accounts for the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Conservation and Forestry Committee |
| HB6277 | Intro
Sine Die | Veterans' Health Care Safety Act of 2016 This bill prohibits implementation of a proposed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rule to permit full practice authority of all VA advanced practice registered nurses when they are acting within the scope o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6230 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security Safety Dividend Act of 2016 This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to disburse a $250 cash payment for a particular year to recipients of Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits (under title XVI of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB6245 | Intro
Sine Die | Sell the VA's Hotel Act This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to sell Pershing Hall for fair market value, transfer to the purchaser all right, title, and interest of the United States to the property, and return to the American ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6249 | Intro
Sine Die | Macadamia Tree Health Initiative This bill amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize the Department of Agriculture to make competitive research and extension grants available for a macadamia tree health initiative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Committee |
| HR909 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing support for the right to rescue animals. Expresses support for: (1) the safety, welfare, and humane treatment of animals; (2) Good Samaritans who rescue animals in imminent danger in unattended vehicles; and (3) efforts for protecting them...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture |
| HB6253 | Intro
Sine Die | CERT Act Collaborating for Economic Reintegration of Troops Act This bill establishes the Commission on Veteran Certification Standards which shall: examine the challenges confronting members of the Armed Forces and their spouses upon post-service en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HCR163 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1916 opening of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the 2016 opening of the new Texas A&M Veterinary & Biomedical Education complex in College Station, Texas. Commemorates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Committee |
| HB6153 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide installation reutilization authority for arsenals, depots, and plants. This bill authorizes the military department concerned, in the case of a military manufacturing arsenal, depot, or plant (a government-owned, government-operated defens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB6217 | Intro
Sine Die | Police Protection Act of 2016 This bill requires federal law enforcement officers to report to the Department of Justice (DOJ) facts and circumstances surrounding an individual's injury or death while in custody. It imposes criminal penalties—a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB6163 | Intro
Sine Die | Federal Benefits Fairness and Restoration Act of 2016 This bill amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of assistance and benefits for certain drug-related convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Nutrition Committee |
| HB6192 | Intro
Sine Die | Responsible Law Enforcement Acquisition Act of 2016 This bill changes the program (known as the 1033 program) under which the Department of Defense (DOD) may transfer surplus military equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies at no cost t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB6123 | Intro
Sine Die | To congressionally designate the museum to preserve the stories, knowledge, and history of the Medal of Honor to be constructed in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, as the National Medal of Honor Museum. This bill designates the Medal of Honor Museum, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB6155 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring Safety of Federal Wilderness Areas Act of 2016 This bill amends the Wilderness Act to prohibit the Department of Agriculture (for wilderness areas under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service) and the Department of the Interior (for wilderne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Conservation and Forestry Committee |
| HB6156 | Intro
Sine Die | Local Wilderness Management Act This bill amends the Wilderness Act to require certain National Forest System lands, including those which have been designated, officially or defacto, by the Forest Service as wilderness study areas, to be managed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Conservation and Forestry Committee |
| HB6147 | Intro
Sine Die | Apollo I Memorial Act This bill directs the Department of the Army to construct in Arlington National Cemetery a memorial marker in honor of the three crew members of the mission that became known as the Apollo I mission who died during a launch rehe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB6132 | Intro
Sine Die | National Trauma Care System Act This bill establishes the Task Force on Eliminating Preventable Deaths or Disabilities due to Traumatic Injuries, which shall: (1) develop a plan to establish a national trauma care system to facilitate the U.S. abilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HR855 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives to remember and honor the members of the United States Armed Forces, veterans, and military families who served in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Recognizes September 11 as a day of remembran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB5985 | Pass | Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2016 This bill extends specified Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs. TITLE I--EXTENSIONS OF AUTHORITY RELATING TO HEALTH CARE (Sec. 101) Authority for collection of copayments for h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. |
| HB6118 | Intro
Sine Die | Financial Services Innovation Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee |
| HB5998 | Intro
Sine Die | Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act of 2016 This bill provides for retroactive calculation as of October 7, 2001, (the start of combat operations in Afghanistan) of qualifying active duty or active service days as a member of the Read...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HR860 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the firefight that occurred on March 4, 2007, between members of the United States Marine Corps and enemy forces in Bati Kot District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Expresses the sense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities |
| HR871 | Intro
Sine Die | Calling on the Department of Defense, other elements of the Federal Government, and foreign countries to intensify efforts to investigate, recover, and identify all missing and unaccounted-for personnel of the United States. Calls upon: (1) the Defen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB6171 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to eliminate the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a waiver from the work requirements for participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program on account of an area's high unempl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Nutrition Committee |
| HB6062 | Intro
Sine Die | SERVICE Act Supporting, Employing, and Recognizing Veterans in Communities Everywhere Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB6114 | Intro
Sine Die | Charles Duncan Buried with Honor Act of 2016 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), if it is unable to identify a deceased veteran's next of kin and if it determines that sufficient resources for the furnishing of a casket or u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB6272 | Intro
Sine Die | VA Provider Pay Modernization Act of 2016 This bill provides that market pay (one of the three salary components of Veterans Health Administration [VHA] physicians and dentists) shall be the same for each physician or dentist with the same specialty ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-19
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB6216 | Intro
Sine Die | Preservation of Public Evidence Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6239 | Intro
Sine Die | HIGHER ED Act Helping Improve Grants for Higher Education & Repayment of Expensive Debt Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HB6219 | Intro
Sine Die | Unsecured Server Act of 2016 This bill amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to prohibit federal agencies from granting or renewing security clearances to federal officers or employees, military members on active duty or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6211 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Housing for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors Act of 2016 This bill amends the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination against or regarding survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault in: the sale or rental of housing and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB6222 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulatory Fingerprints Act of 2016 This bill requires a federal agency to include in each publication in the Federal Register pertaining to a rule: (1) the specific legal authority for the rule, and (2) the name and title of each agency officer or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law |
| HB6223 | Intro
Sine Die | SAAFE Act Safeguarding America's Armed Forces and Effectiveness Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice |
| HB6234 | Intro
Sine Die | Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act of 2016 This bill provides that whoever knowingly purchases or attempts to purchase, mails, imports, exports, produces blank certificates of receipt for, manufactures, sells or attempts to sell, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| HB6198 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide that no alien may be naturalized as a citizen of the United States until such time as the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement completes the digitization of all remaining paper-based fingerprint records for inclusion in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HB6113 | Intro
Sine Die | End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2016
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-18
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
| SB246 | Pass | Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act (Sec. 3) This bill establishes the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children in the Office of Tribal Justice of the Department of Justice. The commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-14
Became Public Law No: 114-244. (TXT | PDF) |
| HB6110 | Intro
Sine Die | Allow State Sovereignty Upon Refugee Entry (ASSURE) Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to set forth requirements for programs for domestic resettlement of, and assistance to, refugees. Before initial placement or resettlement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-11
To House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security |
| HR919 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging States to uphold the rights and dignity of human trafficking survivors. Encourages states to uphold the basic rights and dignity of human trafficking survivors. Urges states to adopt legal rights and protections for victims of human traff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-10-11
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations |
