A bill to award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where the 4 little Black girls lost their lives, which served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
2013-01-30: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Ammunition Background Check Act of 2013
2013-02-12: Committee on the Judiciary Senate Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-870.
Fair Pay Act of 2013
2013-01-29: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013
2014-05-21: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S3195-3196)
Assault Weapons Ban of 2013
2013-03-14: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 27.
New Columbia Admission Act
2014-09-15: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-713.
Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act
2013-01-24: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Voter Empowerment Act of 2013
2013-01-23: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2013
2013-01-23: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S222)
Paycheck Fairness Act
2014-04-01: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-830.
VAWA bill
2013-03-07: Became Public Law No: 113-4.
Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2013
2013-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2013
2013-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act of 2013
2013-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Gun Show Background Check Act of 2013
2013-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Clean and Fair Elections Act
2013-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S47-48)
End Wasteful Tax Loopholes Act
2013-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S47)
Extreme Weather Prevention and Resilience Act
2013-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S47)
Putting Our Veterans Back to Work Act of 2013
2013-07-24: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
2013-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S45)