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Proposed Federal Firearm Legislation HB6637

  this is an anti-gun bill
Legislation Overview

Title: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2020

Subject: Health: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians: Allied health services: Birth defects: Blood and blood diseases: Cancer: Cardiovascular and respiratory health: Census and government statistics: Child health: Computers and information technology: Congressional oversight: Consumer affairs: Correctional facilities and imprisonment: Crime victims: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation: Criminal justice information and records: Dental care: Digestive and metabolic diseases: Disability and health-based discrimination: Disability and paralysis: Drug therapy: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use: Emergency medical services and trauma care: Environmental health: Environmental regulatory procedures: Family planning and birth control: Firearms and explosives: Foreign language and bilingual programs: Government information and archives: Government studies and investigations: Gulf of Mexico: HIV/AIDS: Hawaii: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances: Health care costs and insurance: Health care coverage and access: Health care quality: Health facilities and institutions: Health information and medical records: Health personnel: Health programs administration and funding: Health promotion and preventive care: Health technology, devices, supplies: Hereditary and development disorders: Hospital care: Immunology and vaccination: Indian social and development programs: Infectious and parasitic diseases: Inflation and prices: Medicaid: Medical education: Medical ethics: Medical research: Medical tests and diagnostic methods: Medicare: Mental health: Minority health: Musculoskeletal and skin diseases: Prescription drugs: Racial and ethnic relations: Radiation: Research and development: Rural conditions and development: Sales and excise taxes: Sex and reproductive health: Sex offenses: Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination: Sexually transmitted diseases: Student aid and college costs: U.S. territories and protectorates: Violent crime: Women's health: Academic performance and assessments: Accounting and auditing: Administrative law and regulatory procedures: Advisory bodies: American Samoa: Appropriations: Assault and harassment offenses: Border security and unlawful immigration: Budget deficits and national debt: Budget process: Caribbean area: Child care and development: Community life and organization: Crimes against women: Department of Health and Human Services: Education of the disadvantaged: Education programs funding: Elementary and secondary education: Employment and training programs: Executive agency funding and structure: Family relationships: Foreign aid and international relief: Foreign labor: Guam: Higher education: Immigrant health and welfare: Immigration status and procedures: Intergovernmental relations: Labor standards: Marshall Islands: Micronesia: Minority education: Northern Mariana Islands: Oceania: Palau: Puerto Rico: Refugees, asylum, displaced persons: State and local government operations: Surgery and anesthesia: Teaching, teachers, curricula: Virgin Islands: Visas and passports: Worker safety and health

Description: To improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.

Session: 116th Congress

Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.

Last Action Date: July 9, 2020

Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6637/all-info

Sponsors

Note: the first sponsor listed is normally the primary sponsor. If a sponsor's name is a hyperlink you can click on it to 'follow the money'.

107 sponsors: Jesus Garcia (D); Ayanna Pressley (D); Judy Chu (D); Cedric Richmond (D); Adriano Espaillat (D); Filemon Vela (D); Juan Vargas (D); Nanette Barragan (D); Lucille Roybal-Allard (D); Darren Soto (D); Rashida Tlaib (D); Brian Higgins (D); Jared Huffman (D); Al Green (D); Eleanor Norton (D); Sylvia Garcia (D); Mark Takano (D); Jose Serrano (D); Sheila Jackson-Lee (D); Joyce Beatty (D); Sanford Bishop (D); Bennie Thompson (D); John Lewis (D); Frederica Wilson (D); Terri Sewell (D); Jimmy Gomez (D); Gwen Moore (D); Andre Carson (D); Barbara Lee (D); Susan Davis (D); Gregorio Sablan (I); Jahana Hayes (D); Grace Napolitano (D); Suzanne Bonamici (D); Yvette Clarke (D); Robin Kelly (D); Bonnie Coleman (D); Lloyd Doggett (D); Ilhan Omar (D); Lisa Rochester (D); Lori Trahan (D); Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D); Linda Sanchez (D); Veronica Escobar (D); Salud Carbajal (D); Joaquin Castro (D); Tony Cardenas (D); Raul Grijalva (D); Kathy Castor (D); Jerry McNerney (D); Luis Correa (D); Grace Meng (D); Bobby Rush (D); Nydia Velazquez (D); Pramila Jayapal (D); Dwight Evans (D); Sean Casten (D); Ruben Gallego (D); John Sarbanes (D); Gregory Meeks (D); Eddie Johnson (D); Anthony Brown (D); Zoe Lofgren (D); G. Butterfield (D); Jerrold Nadler (D); Eliot Engel (D); Joseph Kennedy (D); James McGovern (D); Alcee Hastings (D); Carolyn Maloney (D); Donald McEachin (D); Albio Sires (D); Donald Payne (D); Adam Schiff (D); Henry Johnson (D); Ro Khanna (D); Steven Horsford (D); Michael San Nicolas (D); Karen Bass (D); Danny Davis (D); Earl Blumenauer (D); Val Demings (D); Tulsi Gabbard (D); Maxine Waters (D); Brendan Boyle (D); Jimmy Panetta (D); Brenda Lawrence (D); Katherine Clark (D); Suzan DelBene (D); Theodore Deutch (D); Derek Kilmer (D); Tim Ryan (D); David Scott (D); Jamie Raskin (D); John Larson (D); TJ Cox (D); Lois Frankel (D); Thomas Suozzi (D); Angela Craig (D); Chellie Pingree (D); Elaine Luria (D); Mark DeSaulnier (D); C.A. Ruppersberger (D); Hakeem Jeffries (D); Andy Levin (D); Stephen Lynch (D); Brad Sherman (D);

Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 25% (107 of 435)

History
Chamber Date Action
House Jul 9, 2020 Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
House Jul 9, 2020 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
House Jun 1, 2020 Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Introduced in House
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House Apr 28, 2020 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E403-404)
House Apr 28, 2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Armed Services, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Texts
Type Date Federal Link Text
Introduced Jul 9 2020 federal link bill text
Amendments
Title Description Date State Link Text Adopted
There are no amendments to this bill at this time
Committee

Chamber: H

Committee Name: Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife

Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call

There have not been any votes on this bill

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