H.Res. 568 · 117th Congress · House

Expressing that the United States is obligated to permanently end the unhoused crisis by 2025 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.

Active· Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
Introduced
Jul 28, 21
Passed House
Pending
Passed Senate
Pending
Sent to President
Pending
Signed into Law
Pending

Executive Summary

This resolution urges the United States to protect the 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 apply leniency in compiling records, receipts, and documentation from those plaintiffs.

The resolution also expresses the intention of the House of Representatives to address the unhoused crisis in the United States by providing funding and imposing requirements on the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Action Timeline

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  1. AUG 13, 2021Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.

  2. JUL 29, 2021Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

  3. JUL 28, 2021IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  4. JUL 28, 2021IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  5. JUL 28, 2021IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, 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.

  6. JUL 28, 2021IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, 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.

  7. JUL 28, 2021IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, 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.

  8. JUL 28, 2021IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, 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.

  9. JUL 28, 2021IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, 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.

  10. JUL 28, 2021IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, 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.

  11. JUL 28, 2021Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.

Committees

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Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee

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Referred: Aug 13, 2021

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Health Subcommittee

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Referred: Jul 29, 2021

Active

Work and Welfare Subcommittee

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Referred: Jul 28, 2021

Active

Ways and Means Committee

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Referred: Jul 28, 2021

Active

Agriculture Committee

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Referred: Jul 28, 2021

Active

Judiciary Committee

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Referred: Jul 28, 2021

Active

Education and Workforce Committee

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Referred: Jul 28, 2021

Active

Energy and Commerce Committee

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Referred: Jul 28, 2021

Active

Financial Services Committee

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Referred: Jul 28, 2021

Active