I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2644 
To provide direct funding to local, Tribal, and territorial governments to 
establish Green New Deal programs and initiatives, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 19, 2021 
Ms. BUSH (for herself, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. BOWMAN, Ms. OMAR, Ms. 
NORTON, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. WILSON of 
Florida, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Mr. JONES, Mr. CONNOLLY, Ms. 
JAYAPAL, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. NEWMAN, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. ESPAILLAT, 
Ms. TLAIB, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. VARGAS, 
Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. COHEN, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mr. HUFFMAN, 
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, and Mr. THOMPSON of 
California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Fi-
nancial Services, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To provide direct funding to local, Tribal, and territorial 
governments to establish Green New Deal programs and 
initiatives, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) CLIMATE MITIGATION.—The term ‘‘climate 
mitigation’’ means policies and activities intended to 
reduce the greenhouse gas forcing of the climate sys-
tem. 
(2) FPIC.—The term ‘‘FPIC’’ means free, 
prior, and informed consent. 
(3) 
FRONTLINE
COMMUNITY.—The 
term 
‘‘frontline community’’ means a community with sig-
nificant representation of communities of color, low- 
income communities, deindustrialized communities, 
fossil fuel communities, or Tribal and indigenous 
communities, that experiences, or is at risk of expe-
riencing, higher or more adverse climate change, 
human health, or environmental effects, as compared 
to other communities. 
(4) LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.—The term ‘‘local 
government’’ means a territory or any unit of local 
government within a State or territory, including a 
county, borough, municipality, city, town, township, 
parish, local public authority, transit agency (includ-
ing multistate transit agencies), special district, 
school district, intrastate district, council of govern-
ments, any other instrumentality of local govern-
ment. 
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(5) LOCAL GREEN NEW DEAL PROGRAM PRO-
POSAL.—The term ‘‘local Green New Deal program 
proposal’’ means a proposal of a local government or 
a Native American Nation that commits— 
(A) to achieve zero greenhouse gas emis-
sions, by 2030, through a fair and just transi-
tion for all communities and workers; 
(B) to create hundreds of good, high-wage 
jobs and ensure prosperity and economic secu-
rity for all people of the local government or 
Native American Nation; 
(C) to invest in the infrastructure and in-
dustry of the local government to sustainably 
meet the challenges of the 21st century; 
(D) to secure for all people of the United 
States for generations to come— 
(i) clean air and water; 
(ii) climate and community resiliency; 
(iii) healthy and sustainably produced 
food; 
(iv) access to nature; and 
(v) a sustainable environment; and 
(E) to promote justice and equity by stop-
ping current, preventing future, and repairing 
historic oppression of indigenous peoples, com-
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munities 
of 
color, 
migrant 
communities, 
deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural 
communities, the poor, low-income workers, 
women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with 
disabilities, incarcerated communities, and com-
munities experiencing police violence and youth. 
(6) NATIVE
AMERICAN
NATION.—The term 
‘‘Native American Nation’’ means— 
(A) the governing body of any individually 
identified and federally recognized Indian or 
Alaska Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, vil-
lage, community, affiliated tribal group, or com-
ponent reservation in the list published pursu-
ant to section 104(a) of the Federally Recog-
nized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 
5131(a)); 
(B) the governing body of any individually 
identified Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, 
nation, pueblo, village, community, affiliated 
tribal group, or component reservation, exclud-
ing tribal corporations; and 
(C) a State recognized Tribe. 
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TITLE I—GREEN NEW DEAL FOR 
CITIES, 
COUNTIES, 
STATES, 
TRIBES, AND TERRITORIES 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Green New Deals for 
Cities Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 102. GREEN NEW DEAL FOR CITIES, TOWNS, AND NA-
TIVE AMERICAN NATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—From amounts appropriated to 
carry out this title, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, in coordination with the Secretary of En-
ergy, the Secretary of Labor, and the Office of Domestic 
Climate Policy, shall be allocated directly to eligible local 
or State entities in the same manner as amounts appro-
priated under sections 602 and 603 of title VI of the So-
cial Security Act (42 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), as applicable, 
to carry out eligible Green New Deal projects. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—An eligible local or State entity 
receiving an allocation under this section— 
(1) may use such funds to carry out an eligible 
Green New Deal project; 
(2) shall allocate not less than 50 percent of 
such allocation for projects related to climate mitiga-
tion; 
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