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HR 626 118th Congress House Emergency Management

Breaking the Gridlock Act

Introduced: January 30, 2023 Introduced by: DeSaulnier, Mark Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 9 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 17, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 17, 2024
Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.
Mar 7, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on the National Intelligence Enterprise.
Mar 2, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
Feb 10, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 8, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology.
Feb 1, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Jan 30, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Accountability, Financial Services, Agriculture, House Administration, the Judiciary, Small Business, Homeland Security, Rules, Ethics, the Budget, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Armed Services, and Appropriations , 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.
Jan 30, 2023
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Breaking the Gridlock Act

This bill addresses a wide variety of issues, ranging from raising grandchildren to earthquake hazards reduction, to underrepresented groups in cancer trials to telehealth, and fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Specifically, the bill establishes a Federal Task Force to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren.

With respect to earthquake hazards reduction, the bill

  • reauthorizes the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program;
  • reduces the frequency of reporting by the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction;
  • modifies the responsibilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Science Foundation; and
  • directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review federal earthquake hazard risk reduction efforts.

The bill also (1) reauthorizes the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, and (2) restores certain amounts withheld for tax purposes from severance payments to veterans with combat-related injuries.

The GAO must review actions federal agencies have taken to address barriers to participation in federally funded cancer clinical trials by populations that have been traditionally underrepresented in such trials.

The Department of State and the Department of Defense must jointly develop and submit to Congress a five-year strategy to help enable the government of Nigeria, members of the Multinational Joint Task Force to Combat Boko Haram authorized by the African Union, and relevant partners to counter the regional threat of Boko Haram.

The bill makes supplemental appropriations for the Telehealth Resource Center of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy of the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth.

What's happening now December 17, 2024

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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