Jobs and Justice Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5785
Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2018-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Assault and harassment offenses
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Border security and unlawful immigration
Building construction
Business investment and capital
Buy American requirements
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Credit and credit markets
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Education
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of the Treasury
Detention of persons
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Due process and equal protection
Economic development
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Election Assistance Commission
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Financial literacy
Firearms and explosives
Food assistance and relief
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hate crimes
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Housing discrimination
Housing supply and affordability
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Indian social and development programs
Infrastructure development
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Lawyers and legal services
Licensing and registrations
Low- and moderate-income housing
Manufacturing
Mental health
Metals
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Minority education
Minority employment
Monuments and memorials
Performance measurement
Photography and imaging
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public contracts and procurement
Public housing
Public transit
Racial and ethnic relations
Research and development
Roads and highways
Science and engineering education
Small business
State and local finance
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Transportation programs funding
Voting rights
Wages and earnings
Water quality
Water use and supply
Women in business
Women's education
Women's employment
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: 

Jobs and Justice Act of 2018

 
This bill addresses a wide variety of domestic policy matters and focuses on economically distressed communities, opportunities for minorities and the disadvantaged, and civil rights enforcement.
 
Included in the programs and requirements affected are those concerning:
 
 
diversity in contracting;
 
infrastructure development;
 
areas of persistent poverty;
 
job training for youth and older Americans;
 
education of girls and minorities in STEM fields;
 
the federal minimum wage;
 
military family benefits;
 
health care coverage and access;
 
small business investment;
 
commercial investment in underserved areas, including through tax benefits;
 
housing, including affordability and homelessness programs, landlord-tenant matters, public housing, foreclosure mitigation, and discrimination;
 
access to higher education, including through community college attendance;
 
science, technology, and information security education;
 
hate crimes;
 
law enforcement officer conduct;
 
law enforcement resources and administration;
 
juvenile justice;
 
sentencing procedures;
 
voting rights and administration;
 
prison administration; and
 
firearms sales and possession.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2018-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2018-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2018-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2018-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2018-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2018-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2018-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, Small Business, House Administration, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-05-11
text: Introduced in House