Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007
Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.
Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award a grant to each state to carry out a program for making available throughout that state the 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on human services. Requires a participating state to ensure that at least 50% of the resources of the program funded by the grant will be derived from other sources. Requires a state seeking a grant to carry out its activities through a lead entity to be known as a 2-1-1 Collaborative.
Requires grant amounts to be used solely to make available to a state 2-1-1 telephone service for community information and referral on human services to all citizens of that state with phone access, including telephone connections between families and individuals seeking services and the service providers.
Requires grant recipients to: (1) abide by the Key Standards for 2-1-1 Centers; and (2) collaborate with human service organizations to provide an exhaustive database of services with which to provide information or referral to individuals utilizing the 2-1-1 service.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 211: Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-211/
"H.R. 211: Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-211/.
H.R. 211, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-211/.
[H.R. 211: Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007](https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-211/)