US Congress Senate Bill 1702 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: Introduced on May 18 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-05-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible entities to carry out educational programs that include the history of peoples of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander descent in the settling and founding of America, the social, economic, and political environments that led to the development of discriminatory laws targeting Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders and their relation to current events, and the impact and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders to the development and enhancement of American life, United States history, literature, the economy, politics, body of laws, and culture, and for other purposes.

Teaching Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History Act

Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Alex Padilla [D-CA]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]
Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Sen. Laphonza Butler [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-05-18	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB3188 (Related) 2023-05-10 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
HB3434 (Related) 2023-05-17 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
SB1546 (Related) 2023-05-10 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1702/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s1702/BILLS-118s1702is.pdf