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HB2663 - Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
Joe Courtney, Robert C. Scott, Don Bacon
Last updated over 1 year ago
173 Co-Sponsors
To direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard that requires covered employers within the health care and social service industries to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1359 - Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act
Donald Norcross, Don Bacon, Ann M. Kuster
Last updated over 1 year ago
67 Co-Sponsors
To expand the take-home prescribing of methadone through pharmacies.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5066 - Tech to Save Moms Act
Nikema Williams, Lauren A. Underwood, David Joyce
Last updated about 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to evaluate, develop, and expand the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building models to improve maternal health outcomes, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1838 - Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act
Barbara Lee, Janice D. Schakowsky, Ami Bera
Last updated over 1 year ago
172 Co-Sponsors
To prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5041 - Better CARE for Animals Act of 2023 Better Collaboration, Accountability, and Regulatory Enforcement for Animals Act of 2023
Guy Reschenthaler, Mike Quigley, Vern Buchanan
Last updated about 1 year ago
208 Co-Sponsors
To amend the Animal Welfare Act to expand and improve the enforcement capabilities of the Attorney General, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
#animals
HB51 - Washington, D.C. Admission Act
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Lloyd Doggett, Don S. Beyer
Last updated over 1 year ago
211 Co-Sponsors
To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union.
STATUS
Introduced
HB698 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2023
David N. Cicilline, Alma S. Adams, Pete Aguilar
Last updated over 1 year ago
209 Co-Sponsors
To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB82 - Social Security Fairness Act of 2023
Garret Graves, Abigail Spanberger, James Comer
Last updated over 1 year ago
330 Co-Sponsors
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions.
STATUS
Introduced
#social-welfare
HR31 - Honoring Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.®, on reaching the historic milestone of 115 years of serving communities.
Alma S. Adams, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Sheila Jackson-Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Introduced
HB308 - Rosa Parks Day Act
Terri A. Sewell, Steven A. Horsford, Joyce Beatty
Last updated over 1 year ago
116 Co-Sponsors
To amend section 6103 of title 5, United States Code, to establish Rosa Parks Day as a Federal holiday, and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from US Congress district HD-IL-14
COMMITTEES
US House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Lauren A. Underwood is a member of the U.S House representing Illinois's 14th Congressional District. Underwood earned a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Michigan, a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University, and became a Senior Advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama. Underwood worked to implement the Affordable Care Act. After serving in the Obama Administration, she joined a health IT startup improving care coordination. Underwood ran for Congress in 2018, winning an upset victory in a historically Republican district at age 32. In Congress, Underwood serves on the Education & Labor and Veterans’ Affairs Committees.read less
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