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Keeping Girls in School Act

Introduced: December 6, 2018 Introduced by: Frankel, Lois Democratic · Florida See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Oct 9, 2018
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Keeping Girls in School Act

This bill authorizes the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to enter into acquisition, assistance, or financing agreements to address societal, cultural, health, and other barriers that adolescent girls face in accessing quality secondary education.

USAID's Senior Coordinators for International Basic Education Assistance and Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment and the State Department's Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues shall oversee all U.S. resources and activities relating to educational opportunities for adolescent girls.

The bill requires USAID to seek to ensure program adherence to monitoring, evaluation, and data requirements and gender equality guidance.

The Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues shall review, update, submit to Congress, and make publicly available a U.S. global strategy to empower adolescent girls. The U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, issued in March 2016, shall be deemed to fulfill such requirement.

What's happening now October 9, 2018

Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 11
All 11 Democratic 3 Republican 2
Faso, John
· Dec 6, 2018
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Dec 6, 2018
Cook, Paul
· Dec 3, 2018
Jackson Lee, Sheila
· Dec 3, 2018
 R
Guthrie, Brett
Kentucky · Oct 19, 2018
 D
Kelly, Robin L.
Illinois · Oct 19, 2018
 D
Bera, Ami
California · Oct 9, 2018
Brooks, Susan
· Oct 9, 2018
Donovan, Daniel
· Oct 9, 2018
 R
Fitzpatrick, Brian K.
Pennsylvania · Oct 9, 2018
LOWEY, NITA
· Oct 9, 2018
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7055: Keeping Girls in School Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-7055/
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