Insular Area Climate Change Act
Latest action · Dec 30, 2022 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 503.
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.
- IntroducedApr 22, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Insular Area Climate Change Act
This bill provides support through programs and financial assistance for climate change planning, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience in U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and the Freely Associated States (Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau).
For example, the bill requires the Technical Assistance Program of the Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs to provide technical assistance for climate change planning, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience to the territories and Freely Associated States.
It also establishes an Insular Area National Program Office within the Environmental Protection Agency to build and strengthen infrastructure to withstand natural disasters, expand renewable energy and energy efficiency, and provide technical assistance in the territories and Freely Associated States.
Additionally, the bill establishes several grant programs to assess and reduce the impacts of climate change, expand renewable energy and energy efficiency, or expand sustainable infrastructure to withstand natural disasters in the territories and Freely Associated States.
Cosponsors 13
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 22, 2021 to Aug 3, 2021; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Original | Apr 22, 2021 |
| D-MP | Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan | Original | Apr 22, 2021 |
| D-GU | Michael F. Q. San Nicolas | Original | Apr 22, 2021 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | Apr 22, 2021 |
| D-VI | Stacey E. Plaskett | Original | Apr 22, 2021 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | May 7, 2021 | |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | May 7, 2021 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | May 7, 2021 | |
| D-VA | A. Donald McEachin | May 17, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | May 25, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Ritchie Torres | May 25, 2021 | |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Aug 3, 2021 | |
| D-NM | Melanie A. Stansbury | Aug 3, 2021 |
Committees 4
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Hearings Mar 4, 2021Referred Apr 22, 2021Markup Jul 14, 2021Reported Dec 30, 2022 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Apr 22, 2021Discharged Dec 30, 2022 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Apr 23, 2021 | |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Apr 22, 2021Discharged Dec 30, 2022 |
| Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee | Referred Apr 23, 2021 | |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Apr 22, 2021Discharged Dec 30, 2022 |
Actions 12
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 30, 2022Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 117-686, Part I.
- Dec 30, 2022Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
- Dec 30, 2022Committee on Transportation discharged.
- Dec 30, 2022Committee on Science, Space, and Technology discharged.
- Dec 30, 2022Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 503.
- Jul 14, 2021Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jul 14, 2021Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 17.
- Apr 23, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
- Apr 23, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
- Apr 22, 2021Introduced in House
- Apr 22, 2021Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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 4, 2021Hearings Held Prior to Introduction and Referral.
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
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 70, April 22, 2021, page H2108.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R47300 | Ocean Acidification: Frequently Asked Questions | Report | Apr 25, 2023 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2613 | Insular Area Climate Change Act | Related bill | Aug 4, 2021 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for climate change planning, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience in the United States Territories and Freely Associated States, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Insular Area Climate Change Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Insular Area Climate Change Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Air quality
- Alternative and renewable resources
- American Samoa
- Aquatic ecology
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Caribbean area
- Chemical and biological weapons
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Energy
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Economic development
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Energy prices
- Energy revenues and royalties
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental technology
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Federal officials
- Florida
- Geography and mapping
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government studies and investigations
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Infrastructure development
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Natural disasters
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Nuclear weapons
- Oceania
- Palau
- Puerto Rico
- Radioactive wastes and releases
- Research administration and funding
- Rural conditions and development
- Solid waste and recycling
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- Technology assessment
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Virgin Islands
- Water quality
- Water use and supply
- Wetlands
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 30, 2022Reported in House
- Apr 22, 2021Introduced 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.
