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118th Congress · HOUSE RESOLUTIONBILL

H.Res. 634 — Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights

“Expressing that the United States is obligated to permanently end the unhoused crisis by 2027 and uphold, protect, and enforce the civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, including the human rights to housing, universal health care, livable wages, education, employment opportunities, access to public facilities, free movement in public spaces, privacy, confidentiality, internet access, vote, freedom from harassment by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners, and housed residents, and equal rights to health care, legal representation, and social services without discrimination based on housing status.”

Housing and community development
Introduced Jul 28, 2023
Last action Aug 21, 2023
Pipeline · Resolution
Step 1
Introduced
Jul 28, 2023
Step 2
Referred
Aug 21, 2023
Agriculture · Financial Services · Education and Workforce +3
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Committee
Step 4
House floor
SummaryCRS Summary

This resolution urges the United States to protect the civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, to establish regulations and enforcement tools to protect unhoused individuals from violations of civil and human rights, and to establish blanket legal protections for third parties providing goods or services to unhoused individuals. The resolution also urges the United States to establish a process to award appropriate damages, attorney's fees, and costs to a prevailing plaintiff in an action alleging a violation of the human and civil rights of unhoused individuals. Relatedly, the resolution urges the United States to allow the court in such an action to consider housing status and app...

Provisions · 4 sectionsIntroduced in House
Timeline · 9 actions
Aug 21, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
Aug 4, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jul 28, 2023
Introduced in House
Jul 28, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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.
Jul 28, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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.
Jul 28, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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.
Jul 28, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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.
Jul 28, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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.
Jul 28, 2023
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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.