Lauren Underwood

To prohibit discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair.

Recognizing the designation of the week of April 11 through April 17, 2024, as the seventh annual Black Maternal Health Week.

To continue to fund the IMPROVE initiative through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and for other purposes.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to rename master promissory notes for loans made under part D to student loan contracts.

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants to expand and improve maternal health care services, and for other purposes.

Expressing support for the House of Representatives to work alongside the Congressional Black Caucus to build the Black Wealth Agenda and outline the legislative priorities to achieve the Black Wealth Agenda.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the continued implementation of the Climate and Health program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To address the housing crisis through bold investments to increase and preserve the national affordable housing supply, paths to homeownership, and perpetual affordability through shared equity housing and community land trust models, investigating landlord price fixing, and providing relief for rural renters, and for other purposes.

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to establish or expand programs to implement evidence-aligned practices in health care settings for the purpose of reducing the suicide rates of covered individuals, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to support schools of nursing in increasing the number of nursing students and faculty and in program enhancement and infrastructure modernization, and for other purposes.

To provide for a wage differential program to support new nursing school faculty members.

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit Members to vote by proxy in certain cases, and for other purposes.

Honoring Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian boy, murdered as a victim of a hate crime for his Palestinian Muslim identity, in the State of Illinois, United States.

To establish within the Department of Justice an Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls.

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

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to review and make certain revisions to the Standard Occupational Classification System, and for other purposes.

To require Amtrak to report to Congress information on Amtrak compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 with respect to trains and stations.

To strengthen protections against child labor violations, and for other purposes.

To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to improve Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program for low-income mothers.

To provide back pay to Federal contractors, and for other purposes.