Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act
Latest action · Dec 18, 2020 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 555.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 6, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to establish a Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Program. Under the program, Interior must provide grants to assist communities that have experienced a significant decline in quantity or quality of drinking water in obtaining or maintaining adequate quantities of water that meet drinking water quality standards. Specifically, grants must be provided to communities that are unable to meet primary drinking water quality standards or to communities with water supplies that have been lost or severely diminished due to drought conditions, groundwater overdraft conditions, or climate change conditions. Grants must benefit communities with a median household income below a certain threshold located in a city, town, or special district with a population of no more than 60,000 residents.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Dec 6, 2019.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Original | Dec 6, 2019 |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Original | Dec 6, 2019 |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Original | Dec 6, 2019 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Dec 6, 2019Markup Feb 12, 2020Reported Dec 18, 2020 |
| Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee | Referred Jan 2, 2020Hearings Jan 28, 2020Discharged Feb 12, 2020 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Dec 6, 2019Discharged Dec 18, 2020 |
| Environment Subcommittee | Referred Dec 9, 2019 |
Actions 11
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 18, 2020Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-671, Part I.
- Dec 18, 2020Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
- Dec 18, 2020Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 555.
- Feb 12, 2020Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
- Feb 12, 2020Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H4874 | Frank D. Lucas R-OK | Sep 23, 2020 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jun 12, 2020H.R. 5347, Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on February 12, 2020
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 195, December 6, 2019, page H9347.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46308 | Bureau of Reclamation Rural Water Projects Archived | Report | Apr 7, 2020 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Secretary of the Interior to establish a grant program to close gaps in access to safe drinking water in disadvantaged communities, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Water Resources Development.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 18, 2020Reported in House
- Dec 6, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
