LIFT America Act

Bill: 117-hr-1848
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2021-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adult education and literacy
Aging
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Appropriations
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Building construction
Business investment and capital
Buy American requirements
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Community life and organization
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Credit and credit markets
Department of Commerce
Department of Energy
Digital media
Disability and paralysis
Disaster relief and insurance
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Economic development
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency communications systems
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental education
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Financial services and investments
First responders and emergency personnel
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Forests, forestry, trees
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Housing and community development funding
Housing industry and standards
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Indian social and development programs
Industrial facilities
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Libraries and archives
Licensing and registrations
Lighting, heating, cooling
Low- and moderate-income housing
Manufacturing
Medicaid
Medical education
Mental health
Metals
Minority health
Motor carriers
Motor fuels
Motor vehicles
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Natural disasters
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Preschool education
Public contracts and procurement
Public housing
Public utilities and utility rates
Public-private cooperation
Racial and ethnic relations
Regional and metropolitan planning
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Right of privacy
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Tax-exempt organizations
Technology transfer and commercialization
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation programs funding
Unemployment
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-11
text: 

Leading Infrastructure For Tomorrow&rsquo;s America Act or the LIFT America Act

 
This bill establishes several programs and incentives to modernize the nation's communications, drinking water, energy, transportation, health care, and other related infrastructure.
 
For example, the bill provides incentives to make broadband internet more accessible and affordable. It also establishes grants to implement next generation 9-1-1 services.
 
In addition, it supports drinking water programs, including the drinking water state revolving fund program. Further, it provides grants to treat perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (commonly referred to as PFAS) in drinking water and to replace lead service lines.
 
The bill establishes a variety of programs to support clean energy infrastructure and address climate change, including efforts to (1) modernize the electric grid and make it more resilient, efficient, and secure; (2) increase energy efficiency in buildings; and (3) support renewable energy infrastructure.
 
Further, it provides incentives for vehicle infrastructure, such as incentives to develop infrastructure for electric vehicles and grants to reduce air pollution at ports by electrifying port infrastructure.
 
Additionally, the bill establishes grants and programs for health care infrastructure, including by providing support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, laboratories, and state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments.
 
Finally, the bill reauthorizes grant programs to remediate brownfield sites (i.e., sites contaminated with hazardous substances) through FY2026.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-01-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
action_date: 2022-01-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2021-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2021-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2021-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2021-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2021-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Science, Space, and Technology, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Agriculture, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2021-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-03-11
text: Introduced in House