Eleanor Holmes Norton

To authorize the Secretary of Defense to conduct outreach and provide assistance to institutions of higher education to support training and internships for members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes.

To enhance the Federal Government’s planning and preparation for extreme weather and the Federal Government’s dissemination of best practices to respond to extreme weather, thereby increasing resilience, improving regional coordination, and mitigating the financial risk to the Federal Government from such extreme weather, and for other purposes.

To develop career and technical education programs of study and facilities in the areas of renewable energy.

To require certain libraries to maintain a diverse collection of books, and for other purposes.

To require the priority and consideration of using native plants in Federal projects, and for other purposes.

To authorize the establishment of a comprehensive school-based violence prevention program to assist youth at highest risk for involvement in gun violence in local communities and schools, and for other purposes.

To speed up the deployment of electricity transmission and clean energy, with proper input from affected communities, and for other purposes.

To reauthorize the Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act.

To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants for hate crime prevention and prejudice reduction education, and for other purposes.

To direct the Secretary of Education to forgive the Federal student loans of borrowers who are enrolled for benefits under part A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.

To reauthorize the YouthBuild program, and for other purposes.

To guarantee the right to vote for all citizens regardless of conviction of a criminal offense, and for other purposes.

To increase the capacity of the Department of Labor and labor enforcement agencies of States to address labor violations, and for other purposes.

To authorize the Secretary of Education to provide grants to local educational agencies to cover the costs of challenges to determinations not to discontinue the use of specific instructional materials, or the availability of specific school library materials, in public elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend Federal Pell Grant eligibility to certain short-term workforce programs.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the deduction for student loan interest to include payments toward principal, and to increase the value of the deduction.

To end the epidemic of gun violence and build safer communities by strengthening Federal firearms laws and supporting gun violence research, intervention, and prevention initiatives.

To improve the full-service community school program, and for other purposes.

To improve recreation opportunities on, and facilitate greater access to, Federal public land, and for other purposes.

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide certain alternative eligibility requirements applicable to foster care youth, and homeless youth, who are enrolled at least half-time in an institution of higher education, and for other purposes.