US Congress House Bill 794

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 54-0)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2021 - 25% progression
Action: 2021-02-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Pending: House Environment and Climate Change Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs the President to declare a national emergency with respect to climate change. The President, in responding to the emergency, must ensure that the government invests in large scale mitigation and resiliency projects; makes investments that enable a racially and socially just transition to a clean energy economy by ensuring that at least 40% of investments flow to historically disadvantaged communities; avoids solutions that increase inequality or violate human rights; creates jobs that conform to labor standards that provide family sustaining wages and benefits and ensure safe workplaces; prioritizes local and equitable hiring and contracting that creates opportunities for marginalized communities; combats environmental injustice; and reinvests in existing public sector institutions and creates new public sector institutions to strategically mobilize and channel investments at the scale and pace required by the national emergency. The President shall report annually on actions taken in response to the national emergency.

Climate Emergency Act of 2021 National Climate Emergency Act of 2021

Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D-NY]	Rep. Nanette Barragan [D-CA]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Adriano Espaillat [D-NY]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]
Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Andy Levin [D-MI]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Mike Levin [D-CA]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]
Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D-MA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Mondaire Jones [D-NY]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Jimmy Gomez [D-CA]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]
Rep. Joseph Neguse [D-CO]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Jamaal Bowman [D-NY]
Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]	Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL]	Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Jesus Garcia [D-IL]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Ilhan Omar [D-MN]	Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA]
Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]	Rep. Jahana Hayes [D-CT]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Rashida Tlaib [D-MI]
Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Marie Newman [D-IL]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Cori Bush [D-MO]
Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Melanie Stansbury [D-NM]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
2021-02-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
2021-02-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, 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.
2021-02-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, 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.
2021-02-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, 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.
2021-02-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, 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.
2021-02-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, 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.
2021-02-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, 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.
2021-02-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Small Business, 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.
2021-02-04	House	Introduced in House

SB938 (Related) 2021-03-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/794/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr794/BILLS-117hr794ih.pdf