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113th Congress
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United Nations
Women's rights
Girls Count Act of 2014
Introduced: July 10, 2014
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 10, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Jul 10, 2014
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Girls Count Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to: (1) support programs that will contribute to improved civil registration and vital statistics systems with a focus on birth registration; and (2) promote programs that build the capacity of developing countries' national and local legal and policy frameworks to prevent discrimination against girls, and help increase property rights, social security, land tenure, and inheritance rights for women.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committees of jurisdiction
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