American Liberty Restoration Act [S.203]
American Liberty Restoration Act Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that require individuals to maintain minimum essential health care coverage. Applies the Internal Revenue Code as if such provisions had never been enacted.
S.203: American Liberty Restoration Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 01/21/2015
American Soda Ash Competitiveness Act [S.2031]
American Soda Ash Competitiveness Act Sets at 2%, for a five-year period, the royalty rate on the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and related products at the point of shipment to market from federal land.
S.2031: American Soda Ash Competitiveness Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee On Public Lands, Forests, And Mining. Hearings Held. With Printed Hearing: S.hrg. 114-368. on 10/01/2015
Thin Blue Line Act [S.2034]
Thin Blue Line Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder.
S.2034: Thin Blue Line Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 09/15/2015
Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act [S.2040]
Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (Sec. 3) This bill amends the federal judicial code to narrow the scope of foreign sovereign immunity (i.e., a foreign state's immunity from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts). Specifically, it authorizes federal court jurisdiction over a civil claim against a foreign state for physical injury to a person or property or death that occurs inside the United States as a result of: (1) an act of international terrorism, and (2) a tort committed anywhere by an official, agent, or employee of a foreign state acting
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S.2040: Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Became Public Law No: 114-222. (txt | Pdf) on 09/28/2016
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act [S.2066]
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 care as reasonably provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure that such child is immediately admitted to a hospital. The term "born alive" means the complete expulsion or extraction from his or her mother, at any stage of development, who after such expulsion or
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Secure the Border First Act of 2015 [S.208]
Secure the Border First Act of 2015 Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit Border Security Verification Commission (BSVC) and Government Accountability Office reports, at specified intervals, that assess and describe the state of situational awareness and operational control along the northern and southern U.S. borders. Defines "situational awareness" as knowledge and an understanding of current unlawful cross-border activity, the ability to forecast future shifts in such threats and trends, and the operational capability to
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S.208: Secure the Border First Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Flake
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 01/21/2015
Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2015 [S.2102]
Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2015 This bill amends the Clayton Act with respect to actions brought by the Attorney General for violations of antitrust laws. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is required, but only under the Clayton Act, to exercise the same authority and procedures of the Attorney General specified in the Act with respect to the prohibition against acquisition by one corporation of the stock of another (merger) that may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. The Federal
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S.2102: Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Committee On The Judiciary Subcommittee On Antitrust, Competition Policy And Consumer Rights. Hearings Held. on 03/09/2016
A bill to prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property. [S.2117]
A bill to prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property. This bill prohibits states, political subdivisions, and any other taxing authority from: (1) assessing natural gas pipeline property at a value that has a higher ratio to its true market value than the ratio used to assess other commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction, (2) levying or collecting a tax on such an assessment, (3) levying or collecting an ad valorem property tax on natural gas pipeline property at a rate that exceeds the
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S.2117: A bill to prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cornyn
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S7103-7104) on 10/01/2015
Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 [S.2123]
Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 TITLE I--SENTENCING REFORM (Sec. 101) This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to reduce from life to 25 years and from 20 to 15 years the enhanced mandatory minimum prison terms imposed on certain nonviolent defendants convicted of high-level repeat drug offenses (including unlawful import, export, manufacture, or distribution of, or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance). A high-level drug offense involves a very substantial
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S.2123: Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Committee On The Judiciary. Reported By Senator Grassley With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute. Without Written Report. on 10/26/2015
S.2143: A bill to provide for the authority for the successors and assigns of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Cornyn
Became Public Law No: 114-163. (txt | Pdf) on 05/20/2016
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