US Congress House Bill 5785 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 45-0)
Status: Introduced on May 11 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-05-14 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Jobs and Justice Act of 2018 This bill addresses a wide variety of domestic policy matters and focuses on economically distressed communities, opportunities for minorities and the disadvantaged, and civil rights enforcement. Included in the programs and requirements affected are those concerning: diversity in contracting; infrastructure development; areas of persistent poverty; job training for youth and older Americans; education of girls and minorities in STEM fields; the federal minimum wage; military family benefits; health care coverage and access; small business investment; commercial investment in underserved areas, including through tax benefits; housing, including affordability and homelessness programs, landlord-tenant matters, public housing, foreclosure mitigation, and discrimination; access to higher education, including through community college attendance; science, technology, and information security education; hate crimes; law enforcement officer conduct; law enforcement resources and administration; juvenile justice; sentencing procedures; voting rights and administration; prison administration; and firearms sales and possession.

Jobs and Justice Act of 2018

Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]
Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. James Clyburn [D-SC]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]
Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]
Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]	Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]
Rep. Al Green [D-TX]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]
Rep. Terri Sewell [D-AL]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Robin Kelly [D-IL]	Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]
Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]	Rep. Stacey Plaskett [D-VI]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]
Rep. Lisa Rochester [D-DE]	Rep. Anthony Brown [D-MD]	Rep. Val Demings [D-FL]	Rep. Al Lawson [D-FL]
Rep. Donald McEachin [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-05-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
2018-05-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
2018-05-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
2018-05-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
2018-05-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
2018-05-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
2018-05-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
2018-05-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
2018-05-11	House	Introduced in House

HB6203 (Related) 2018-06-22 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
HB6280 (Related) 2018-06-28 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
SB3116 (Related) 2018-06-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
HB6610 (Related) 2018-07-26 - Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
HB3741 (Related) 2017-09-12 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
HB6956 (Related) 2018-09-27 - Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
HB4071 (Related) 2017-10-16 - Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
HB4319 (Related) 2017-11-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
SB3234 (Related) 2018-07-18 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5069)
SB3165 (Related) 2018-06-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5785/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr5785/BILLS-115hr5785ih.pdf