Girls LEAD Act
- Last Action
- 3/9/2021
Actions
- 2021-03-09Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- 2021-03-09Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-03-09 (00)
Girls' Leadership, Engagement, Agency, and Development Act of 2021 or the Girls LEAD Act
This bill directs the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to jointly report to Congress a strategy to strengthen the participation of adolescents, particularly girls, in democracy, human rights, and governance.
The State Department and the USAID shall (1) implement activities to achieve this goal, including activities to increase adolescent girls' civic and political knowledge and skills and address barriers to political participation; and (2) prioritize foreign assistance funding for democracy, human rights, and governance programs toward achieving the goals in this bill.
Cosponsors (20)
- Ben Cardin (D-MD)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Shelley Capito (R-WV)
- Jacklyn Rosen (D-NV)
- Rob Portman (R-OH)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Timothy Kaine (D-VA)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Gary Peters (D-MI)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Richard Durbin (D-IL)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Edward Markey (D-MA)
- Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Subjects
- Child care and development
- Child health
- Child safety and welfare
- Congressional oversight
- Crimes against women
- Elementary and secondary education
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Government information and archives
- HIV/AIDS
- Human rights
- Marriage and family status
- Nutrition and diet
- Performance measurement
- Public participation and lobbying
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Religion
- Rule of law and government transparency
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
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