HR 260 United States House · 117th Congress

Women and Climate Change Act of 2021

Summary

Women and Climate Change Act of 2021 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 combating the effects of climate change on women and 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.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

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Jan 2021

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Introduced Jan 11, 2021 Last action Feb 2, 2021

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Feb 2, 2021

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.

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Jan 11, 2021

Committee

Referred 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.

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Jan 11, 2021

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Introduced in House

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1 primary · 70 co-sponsors