Women and Climate Change Act of 2019
- Last Action
- 3/27/2019
Actions
- 2019-03-27Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
- 2019-03-26Referred 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.
- 2019-03-26Referred 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.
- 2019-03-26Introduced in House
- 2019-03-26Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-03-26 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (20)
- Ro Khanna (D-CA)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- ALCEE HASTINGS (D-FL)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
- Adriano Espaillat (D-NY)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Lori Trahan (D-MA)
- Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
- EARL BLUMENAUER (D-OR)
- JERROLD NADLER (D-NY)
- ZOE LOFGREN (D-CA)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Tom Malinowski (D-NJ)
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
- Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
- NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY)
- Matt Cartwright (D-PA)
- Anthony Brown (D-MD)
Subjects
- Air quality
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Crimes against women
- Department of State
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Ecology
- Economic development
- 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
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