Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-8406
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2020-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Adoption and foster care
Adult day care
Adult education and literacy
Advisory bodies
African Development Foundation
Aging
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Air quality
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Allied health services
Alternative and renewable resources
American Battle Monuments Commission
American Samoa
Animal and plant health
Appropriations
Architect of the Capitol
Asia
Assault and harassment offenses
Aviation and airports
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Blood and blood diseases
Border security and unlawful immigration
Business expenses
Business investment and capital
Business records
Buy American requirements
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Caribbean area
Cemeteries and funerals
Census and government statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Child care and development
Child health
Citizenship and naturalization
Civil actions and liability
Community life and organization
Commuting
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Congressional agencies
Congressional officers and employees
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Corporation for National and Community Service
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Credit and credit markets
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Debt collection
Defense spending
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Detention of persons
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Disaster relief and insurance
District of Columbia
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Due process and equal protection
Economic performance and conditions
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Election Assistance Commission
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency communications systems
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Employment taxes
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental health
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Family services
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Federal Reserve System
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Financial services and investments
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign labor
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Foreign loans and debt
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Fruit and vegetables
General Services Administration
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government Publishing Office (GPO)
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Guam
HIV/AIDS
Hate crimes
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Hospital care
House of Representatives
Housing and community development funding
Housing discrimination
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Housing supply and affordability
Humanities programs funding
Immigration status and procedures
Immunology and vaccination
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Inflation and prices
Insurance industry and regulation
Inter-American Foundation
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Intergovernmental relations
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
International organizations and cooperation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Iran
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Labor-management relations
Landlord and tenant
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Lawyers and legal services
Legal Services Corporation
Libraries and archives
Library of Congress
Licensing and registrations
Life, casualty, property insurance
Lighting, heating, cooling
Livestock
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Low- and moderate-income housing
Manufacturing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Marshall Islands
Meat
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Micronesia
Middle East
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Military civil functions
Military history
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Minority education
Minority health
Monuments and memorials
Motor carriers
Multilateral development programs
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Music
National Archives and Records Administration
National Credit Union Administration
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
National Guard and reserves
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
National Science Foundation
National and community service
Natural disasters
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
Neurological disorders
News media and reporting
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Nursing
Nutrition and diet
Oceania
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Summary:
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: 

The Heroes Act

 
This bill provides additional appropriations, modifies existing programs and requirements, and establishes new programs to address the continued impact of COVID-19 on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, 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: 2020-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, 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: 2020-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, 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: 2020-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Introduced in House