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Driving for Opportunity Act of 2020 [S.4186]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Poverty ]
A bill to provide grants to States that do not suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a driver's license of a person or refuse to renew a registration of a motor vehicle for failure to pay a civil or criminal fine or fee, and for other purposes.
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Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act of 2020 [S.4397]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Science ]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Directs specified components of the Department of Health and Human Services to take certain actions to address uterine fibroids (i.e., muscular tumors that grow in the wall of the uterus and may cause pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, and reproductive issues). Specifically, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), working through the Office of Research on Women's Health, must undertake research activities on uterine fibroids. In carrying out this research, the office must coordinate with specified components of the NIH and other federal agencies.
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HELP Act of 2020 Housing Emergencies Lifeline Program Act of 2020 [S.4399]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
[Poverty ]
[Real Estate ]
Requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a database of information regarding evictions from federally assisted dwellings, limits the inclusion of information relating to landlord-tenant actions in consumer reports, and otherwise provides eviction-related assistance and services. Specifically, the bill requires states and local entities receiving federal housing assistance to submit to HUD, for inclusion in the database, certain information regarding evictions from assisted dwelling units in the past year. Such
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Environmental Justice For All Act [S.4401]
[Environmental ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
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[Public Health ]
[Community Development ]
[Recreation ]
Establishes several environmental justice requirements, advisory bodies, and programs to address the disproportionate adverse human health or environmental effects of federal laws or programs on communities of color, low-income communities, or tribal and indigenous communities. Specifically, the bill prohibits disparate impacts on the basis of race, color, or national origin as discrimination. Aggrieved persons may seek legal remedy when faced with such discrimination. In addition, the bill directs agencies to follow certain requirements concerning
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RESTAURANTS Act of 2020 Real Economic Support That Acknowledges Unique Restaurant Assistance Needed To Survive Act of 2020 [S.4012]
[Food ]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
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Temporarily establishes and provides funding for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, from which the Department of the Treasury shall make grants to eligible food and beverage purveyors to cover specified costs. For the grant program's initial period, Treasury must (1) prioritize awarding grants to marginalized and underrepresented communities, and (2) only award grants to eligible food and beverage purveyors with annual revenues of less than $1.5 million. Further, an entity that received a loan under the Paycheck Protection Program established to
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Pandemic TANF Assistance Act [S.3672]
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[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
[Public Health ]
[Social Security ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Temporarily suspends certain Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program requirements and establishes a grant program in response to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency. Specifically, states, tribes, and territories may not deny, reduce, or terminate TANF assistance because a recipient does not meet specified conditions of TANF participation from October 1, 2019, to November 30, 2020. These conditions include time limits for receiving assistance, work requirements, and compliance with paternity establishment or child
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Same Day Registration Act [S.624]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Requires states with a voter registration requirement to make same-day voter registration available at the polling place on any day voting is permitted.
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Impact Aid Infrastructure Act [S.4417]
[Education ]
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[Grants ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Military ]
Authorizes additional Impact Aid construction grants for FY2022. These grants provide infrastructure assistance to local educational agencies that have lost property tax revenue due to the presence of tax-exempt federal property or to those that have experienced increased expenditures due to enrollment of federally connected children (e.g., children living on Indian lands or military bases).
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SERVE and CARRY Act State Emergency Restaurant and Vendor Enhancement and COVID–19 Anti-hunger Restaurant Relief for You Act [S.4061]
[Food ]
[Public Health ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
A bill to provide emergency nutrition assistance to States, and for other purposes.
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Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in Disaster Response, Recovery, and Resilience Act of 2020 [S.3658]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Community Development ]
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[Human Rights ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Public Health ]
Establishes an Office of Equal Rights and Community Inclusion (OERCI) within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). OERCI shall be responsible for improving underserved community access to disaster assistance and improving the quality of assistance such communities receive; eliminating racial, ethnic, and other underserved community disparities in the delivery of various preparedness, response, and recovery assistance; and carrying out such other responsibilities of the previous Office of Equal Rights as in effect on the day before the
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