Congress 116 - HR 1880 - Women and Climate Change Act of 2019

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Air quality Climate change and greenhouse gases Congressional oversight Crimes against women Department of State Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad Ecology Economic development Environmental Protection Executive agency funding and structure Food assistance and relief Human rights Infrastructure development International organizations and cooperation Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Racial and ethnic relations Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination United Nations Urban and suburban affairs and development Women's education Women's employment Women's health Women's rights

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Women and Climate Change Act of 2019

This bill addresses climate change and its effects on women and girls.

Specifically, the bill establishes the Federal Interagency Working Group on Women and Climate Change within the Department of State. The bill outlines the functions of the working group, including the coordination of agencies' policies and activities relating to (1) combating the effects of climate change on women, and (2) improving the government's response to and strategy for climate change.

In addition, the Office of Global Women's Issues of the State Department must submit a strategy to prevent and respond to the effects of climate change on women.

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Mar 27, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Mar 26, 2019

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Mar 26, 2019

Introduced in House

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