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Expressing that the United States is obligated to permanently end the unhoused crisis by 2025 and uphold, protect, and enforce the civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, including the human rights to housing, universal health care, livable wages, education, employment opportunities, access to public facilities, free movement in public spaces, privacy, confidentiality, internet access, vote, freedom from harassment by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners, and housed residents, and equal rights to health care, legal representation, and social services without discrimination based on housing status.

USA117th CongressHRES-568| House 
| Updated: 8/13/2021
Cori Bush

Cori Bush

Democratic Representative

Missouri

Cosponsors (31)
Dwight Evans (Democratic)Nikema Williams (Democratic)Adam B. Schiff (Democratic)Barbara Lee (Democratic)Raúl M. Grijalva (Democratic)Karen Bass (Democratic)Sheila Jackson Lee (Democratic)Mondaire Jones (Democratic)Andy Levin (Democratic)Steve Cohen (Democratic)Ted Lieu (Democratic)Alan S. Lowenthal (Democratic)André Carson (Democratic)Mark DeSaulnier (Democratic)Pramila Jayapal (Democratic)Betty McCollum (Democratic)Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democratic)Bonnie Watson Coleman (Democratic)Janice D. Schakowsky (Democratic)James P. McGovern (Democratic)Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democratic)Nydia M. Velázquez (Democratic)Marie Newman (Democratic)Yvette D. Clarke (Democratic)Earl Blumenauer (Democratic)Nanette Diaz Barragán (Democratic)Jesús G. "Chuy" García (Democratic)Grace Meng (Democratic)Rashida Tlaib (Democratic)Ayanna Pressley (Democratic)Jamaal Bowman (Democratic)
Committees (9)
• Ways and Means Committee• Agriculture Committee• Work and Welfare Subcommittee• Financial Services Committee• Health Subcommittee• Judiciary Committee• Energy and Commerce Committee• Education and Workforce Committee• Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee
  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
This resolution urges the United States to protect the human rights of unhoused individuals, to establish regulations and enforcement tools to protect unhoused individuals from violations of civil and human rights, and to establish blanket legal protections for third parties providing goods or services to unhoused individuals. The resolution also urges the United States to establish a process to award appropriate damages, attorney's fees, and costs to a prevailing plaintiff in an action alleging a violation of the human and civil rights of unhoused individuals. Relatedly, the resolution urges the United States to allow the court in such an action to consider housing status and apply leniency in compiling records, receipts, and documentation from those plaintiffs. The resolution also expresses the intention of the House of Representatives to address the unhoused crisis in the United States by providing funding and imposing requirements on the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Timeline
Jul 28, 2021
Introduced in House
Jul 28, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
Jul 28, 2021
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Ways and Means, 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.
Jul 29, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug 13, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
  • July 28, 2021
    Introduced in House


  • July 28, 2021
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.


  • July 28, 2021
    Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Ways and Means, 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.


  • July 29, 2021
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.


  • August 13, 2021
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.

Housing and Community Development

Assault and harassment offensesCardiovascular and respiratory healthCongressional oversightCrime victimsCriminal investigation, prosecution, interrogationCriminal justice information and recordsDefense spendingDepartment of DefenseEmergency medical services and trauma careEmployee hiringEmployment discrimination and employee rightsExecutive agency funding and structureFirst Amendment rightsGovernment information and archivesGovernment trust fundsHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessHealth information and medical recordsHigher educationHIV/AIDSHomelessness and emergency shelterHousing and community development fundingHousing discriminationHousing supply and affordabilityHuman rightsHuman traffickingInfectious and parasitic diseasesInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaLabor standardsLandlord and tenantLow- and moderate-income housingPoverty and welfare assistancePublic housingReligionRight of privacySelf-employedSocial security and elderly assistanceSolid waste and recyclingStudent aid and college costsVeterans' loans, housing, homeless programsViolent crimeVoting rightsWages and earningsWater use and supply

Expressing that the United States is obligated to permanently end the unhoused crisis by 2025 and uphold, protect, and enforce the civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, including the human rights to housing, universal health care, livable wages, education, employment opportunities, access to public facilities, free movement in public spaces, privacy, confidentiality, internet access, vote, freedom from harassment by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners, and housed residents, and equal rights to health care, legal representation, and social services without discrimination based on housing status.

USA117th CongressHRES-568| House 
| Updated: 8/13/2021
This resolution urges the United States to protect the human rights of unhoused individuals, to establish regulations and enforcement tools to protect unhoused individuals from violations of civil and human rights, and to establish blanket legal protections for third parties providing goods or services to unhoused individuals. The resolution also urges the United States to establish a process to award appropriate damages, attorney's fees, and costs to a prevailing plaintiff in an action alleging a violation of the human and civil rights of unhoused individuals. Relatedly, the resolution urges the United States to allow the court in such an action to consider housing status and apply leniency in compiling records, receipts, and documentation from those plaintiffs. The resolution also expresses the intention of the House of Representatives to address the unhoused crisis in the United States by providing funding and imposing requirements on the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Timeline
Jul 28, 2021
Introduced in House
Jul 28, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
Jul 28, 2021
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Ways and Means, 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.
Jul 29, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug 13, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
  • July 28, 2021
    Introduced in House


  • July 28, 2021
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.


  • July 28, 2021
    Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Ways and Means, 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.


  • July 29, 2021
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.


  • August 13, 2021
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
Cori Bush

Cori Bush

Democratic Representative

Missouri

Cosponsors (31)
Dwight Evans (Democratic)Nikema Williams (Democratic)Adam B. Schiff (Democratic)Barbara Lee (Democratic)Raúl M. Grijalva (Democratic)Karen Bass (Democratic)Sheila Jackson Lee (Democratic)Mondaire Jones (Democratic)Andy Levin (Democratic)Steve Cohen (Democratic)Ted Lieu (Democratic)Alan S. Lowenthal (Democratic)André Carson (Democratic)Mark DeSaulnier (Democratic)Pramila Jayapal (Democratic)Betty McCollum (Democratic)Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democratic)Bonnie Watson Coleman (Democratic)Janice D. Schakowsky (Democratic)James P. McGovern (Democratic)Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democratic)Nydia M. Velázquez (Democratic)Marie Newman (Democratic)Yvette D. Clarke (Democratic)Earl Blumenauer (Democratic)Nanette Diaz Barragán (Democratic)Jesús G. "Chuy" García (Democratic)Grace Meng (Democratic)Rashida Tlaib (Democratic)Ayanna Pressley (Democratic)Jamaal Bowman (Democratic)
Committees (9)
• Ways and Means Committee• Agriculture Committee• Work and Welfare Subcommittee• Financial Services Committee• Health Subcommittee• Judiciary Committee• Energy and Commerce Committee• Education and Workforce Committee• Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee

Housing and Community Development

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Assault and harassment offensesCardiovascular and respiratory healthCongressional oversightCrime victimsCriminal investigation, prosecution, interrogationCriminal justice information and recordsDefense spendingDepartment of DefenseEmergency medical services and trauma careEmployee hiringEmployment discrimination and employee rightsExecutive agency funding and structureFirst Amendment rightsGovernment information and archivesGovernment trust fundsHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessHealth information and medical recordsHigher educationHIV/AIDSHomelessness and emergency shelterHousing and community development fundingHousing discriminationHousing supply and affordabilityHuman rightsHuman traffickingInfectious and parasitic diseasesInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaLabor standardsLandlord and tenantLow- and moderate-income housingPoverty and welfare assistancePublic housingReligionRight of privacySelf-employedSocial security and elderly assistanceSolid waste and recyclingStudent aid and college costsVeterans' loans, housing, homeless programsViolent crimeVoting rightsWages and earningsWater use and supply