Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights

Bill: 118-hres-634
Sponsor: Rep. Bush, Cori [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2023-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Executive agency funding and structure
First Amendment rights
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Housing discrimination
Housing supply and affordability
Human rights
Human trafficking
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet, web applications, social media
Labor standards
Low- and moderate-income housing
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing
Religion
Right of privacy
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Solid waste and recycling
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Violent crime
Voting rights
Wages and earnings
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: 

Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights

This resolution urges the United States to protect the civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, to establish regulations and enforcement tools to protect unhoused individuals from violations of civil and human rights, and to establish blanket legal protections for third parties providing goods or services to unhoused individuals.

The resolution also urges the United States to establish a process to award appropriate damages, attorney's fees, and costs to a prevailing plaintiff in an action alleging a violation of the human and civil rights of unhoused individuals. Relatedly, the resolution urges the United States to allow the court in such an action to consider housing status and apply leniency in compiling records, receipts, and documentation from those plaintiffs.

The resolution also expresses the intention of the House of Representatives to address the unhoused crisis in the United States by providing funding and imposing requirements on the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-08-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Introduced in House