Poverty And Welfare Assistance
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INFANT Act Infants Need Food And Nutrition Today Act [HB-784]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to allow infant food combinations and dinners as WIC-eligible foods.
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MAPSA Act Marriage Access for People with Special Abilities Act [HB-761]
[Social Security ]
[Disabilities ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that the supplemental security income benefits of adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities shall not be reduced by reason of marriage.
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Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2021 [S.162]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for public health research and investment into understanding and eliminating structural racism and police violence.
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Ensuring Vaccination and Treatment Affordability Act [HB-722]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to require coverage under the Medicaid program and Children's Health Insurance Program for vaccines and treatment for COVID-19 without the imposition of cost sharing requirements, and for other purposes.
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Hazel M. Johnson Memorial Stamp Act [HB-673]
[Arts and Culture ]
To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Hazel M. Johnson, and for other purposes.
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Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2021 [HB-666]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for public health research and investment into understanding and eliminating structural racism and police violence.
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Shovel-Ready Restoration Grants for Coastlines and Fisheries Act of 2021 [HB-660]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Water ]
[Economic Development ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Climate Change ]
To require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a grant program to benefit coastal habitats, resiliency, and the economy, and for other purposes.
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Hazel M. Johnson Congressional Gold Medal Act [HB-674]
[Environmental ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Hazel M. Johnson, in recognition of her achievements and contributions to the environmental justice movement.
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Supplemental Security Income Equality Act [HB-537]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
To extend the supplemental security income program to Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and for other purposes.
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Relaunching America’s Workforce Act [HB-602]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
To provide State and local workforce and career and technical education systems with support to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency.
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Climate Smart Ports Act [HB-501]
[Environmental ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Air Quality ]
To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to award grants to eligible entities to purchase, and as applicable install, zero emissions port equipment and technology, and for other purposes.
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Expressing the moral responsibility of the Congress to end adult and child poverty in the United States. [HR-67]
[Poverty ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Economic Development ]
Expressing the moral responsibility of the Congress to end adult and child poverty in the United States.
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RESET for America’s Future Act Revitalize and Expand SNAP Education and Training for America’s Future Act [HB-487]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Poverty ]
[Education ]
[Human Services ]
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand the operation of the State employment and training programs under such Act, and for other purposes.
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Health Force, Resilience Force, and Jobs To Fight COVID–19 Act of 2021 [HB-460]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
To provide for the establishment of a standing Health Force and a Resilience Force to respond to public health emergencies and meet public health needs.
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Health Force, Resilience Force, and Jobs To Fight COVID–19 Act of 2021 [S.32]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
A bill to provide for the establishment of a standing Health Force and a Resilience Force to respond to public health emergencies and meet public health needs.
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To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to Alaska Native elders for determining eligibility for certain programs, and for other purposes. [HB-437]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Human Services ]
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to Alaska Native elders for determining eligibility for certain programs, and for other purposes.
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Native American Millennium Challenge Demonstration Act [HB-439]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Poverty ]
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a demonstration program to adapt the successful practices of providing foreign aid to underdeveloped economies to the provision of Federal economic development assistance to Native communities in similarly situated remote areas in the United States, and for other purposes.
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Assuring You Uniform Dietary Assistance (AYUDA) Act of 2021 [HB-421]
[Food ]
[Human Services ]
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to treat the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the same manner as Guam is treated.
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Excluding Pandemic Unemployment Compensation from Income Act [HB-435]
[Taxes ]
[Unemployment ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
To exclude from tax certain payments of Federal pandemic unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.
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COLA’s Don’t Count Act of 2021 [HB-351]
[Food ]
[Social Security ]
[Poverty ]
[Human Services ]
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude from income, for the purpose of determining eligibility and benefits, income received from cost of living adjustments made under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act and from supplementary payments received under section 1616 of such Act.