HR 8352
116th Congress
House
Economics and Public Finance
Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Air quality
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Alternative and renewable resources
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Appropriations
Aviation and airports
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Building construction
Business investment and capital
Buy American requirements
Capital gains tax
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Caribbean area
Child care and development
FAFSA Act
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Introduced
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Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 24, 2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Sep 24, 2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Sep 24, 2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Sep 24, 2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Sep 24, 2020
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Sep 23, 2020
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Armed Services, the Budget, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, House Administration, Natural Resources, Oversight and Reform, Rules, Science, Space, and Technology, Small Business, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, 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.
Sep 23, 2020
Introduced in House
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Plain-English summary
Jobs and Justice Act of 2020
This bill addresses a wide variety of domestic policy matters and focuses on economically distressed communities, opportunities for minorities and the disadvantaged, and civil rights enforcement. Included in the programs and requirements affected are those concerning the following areas:
- workforce development, including job training and wage standards;
- economic development, including through assistance to minority businesses;
- antipoverty measures, including programs to specifically address child poverty and persistent poverty;
- housing and savings matters, including housing affordability, discrimination, homelessness assistance, tenant protections, public housing funding, home ownership and foreclosure mitigation, and lead-safe housing;
- savings and consumer finance, including financial literacy and lending discrimination;
- public contracting;
- infrastructure development;
- job training for youth and older Americans;
- veterans' and military family benefits;
- health care coverage and access, including Medicare and Medicaid coverage;
- small business investment and commercial investment in underserved areas, including through tax benefits;
- elementary and secondary education, including education of girls and minorities and teacher preparation;
- higher education access, including through community college attendance;
- science, technology, and information security education;
- law enforcement officer conduct, resources and administration, juvenile justice, sentencing procedures, hate crimes, correctional facilities, and firearms sales and possession;
- election administration and voting rights; and
- environmental, agriculture, and energy matters, including climate change, environmental justice, and energy efficiency and transition to alternative and renewable resources.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Bill text
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Committees of jurisdiction
23
- Agriculture Committee
- Armed Services Committee
- Aviation Subcommittee
- Budget Committee
- Committee on House Administration
- Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee
- Education and Workforce Committee
- Energy and Commerce Committee
- Financial Services Committee
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Highways and Transit Subcommittee
- Homeland Security Committee
- Judiciary Committee
- Natural Resources Committee
- Oversight and Government Reform Committee
- Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee
- Rules Committee
- Science, Space, and Technology Committee
- Small Business Committee
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
- Veterans' Affairs Committee
- Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee
- Ways and Means Committee
Cosponsors
39
D
Adams, Alma S.
D
Beatty, Joyce
D
Bishop, Sanford D.
D
Blunt Rochester, Lisa
Brown, Anthony
Butterfield, G. K.
D
Carson, André
D
Clarke, Yvette D.
CLAY, WM.
D
Cleaver, Emanuel
D
Clyburn, James E.
D
Davis, Danny K.
D
Evans, Dwight
Fudge, Marcia
D
Green, Al
HASTINGS, ALCEE
D
Horsford, Steven
D
Jeffries, Hakeem S.
D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
JOHNSON, EDDIE
D
Kelly, Robin L.
Lawrence, Brenda
McEachin, A.
D
Meeks, Gregory W.
D
Mfume, Kweisi
D
Moore, Gwen
D
Neguse, Joe
D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
D
Omar, Ilhan
D
Plaskett, Stacey E.
D
Pressley, Ayanna
Richmond, Cedric
D
Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
D
Sewell, Terri A.
D
Thompson, Bennie G.
D
Veasey, Marc A.
D
Waters, Maxine
D
Watson Coleman, Bonnie
D
Wilson, Frederica S.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8352: Jobs and Justice Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8352/
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