US Congress House Bill 4479 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 174-0)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-09 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H598)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Families of Flint Act This bill provides support for Flint, Michigan in addressing lead in the city's drinking water and related issues. The bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by establishing a 10-year grant program to ensure that Flint's drinking water does not contain: (1) lead levels that threaten public health or the environment, or (2) other drinking water contaminants and pathogens that threaten public health. The bill also establishes specified grant programs for assisting Flint that are established within the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The bill amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, by allowing states to use more than 20% of funds from Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants for addressing a threat to public health from heightened exposure to lead in a municipal drinking water supply if a federal or state emergency declaration has been issued for that threat. HHS must establish in Flint a Center of Excellence on Lead Exposure. The bill amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase the allowable participation period in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children for children residing in areas that are in a state of emergency. A state may elect to allow those children to participate in the program for a period that ends on the earlier of: (1) the child's tenth birthday (currently fifth), or (2) five years after the emergency (currently children may participate for a one-year period).

Families of Flint Act

Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Sander Levin [D-MI]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]
Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]
Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Janice Hahn [D-CA]
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]
Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]
Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]
Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]
Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]
Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Alan Grayson [D-FL]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]
Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]	Rep. Stacey Plaskett [D-VI]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]
Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]	Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Rep. Robin Kelly [D-IL]
Rep. Donna Edwards [D-MD]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]
Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Terri Sewell [D-AL]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]
Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]	Rep. Mark Takai [D-HI]	Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]
Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Joaquin Castro [D-TX]	Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]
Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]
Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]
Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]
Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]	Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]
Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]	Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]
Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Filemon Vela [D-TX]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Henry Cuellar [D-TX]
Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]
Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. John Carney [D-DE]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]
Rep. Jim Costa [D-CA]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Brad Ashford [D-NE]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]
Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]
Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Peter Visclosky [D-IN]	Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]
Rep. Bill Foster [D-IL]	Rep. Raul Ruiz [D-CA]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]
Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]
Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-09	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H598)
2016-02-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
2016-02-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
2016-02-04	House	Referred to House Budget
2016-02-04	House	Referred to House Financial Services
2016-02-04	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2016-02-04	House	Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2016-02-04	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2016-02-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, and the Budget, 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.
2016-02-04	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4479/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4479/BILLS-114hr4479ih.pdf