Nikema Williams

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow workers an above-the-line deduction for union dues and expenses and to allow a miscellaneous itemized deduction for workers for all unreimbursed expenses incurred in the trade or business of being an employee.

To expand access to health care services for immigrants by removing legal and policy barriers to health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to evaluate, develop, and expand the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building models to improve maternal health outcomes, and for other purposes.

Recognizing August 11, 2023, as the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.

To direct the Secretary of Labor to promulgate an occupational safety and health standard to protect workers from heat-related injuries and illnesses.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to modify the loan repayment program for the substance use disorder treatment workforce to relieve workforce shortages.

To provide incentives to physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities, and for other purposes.

To provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes.

To amend the Indian Self-Determination Act and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to provide advance appropriations authority for certain accounts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education of the Department of the Interior and the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes.

To establish a grant program to fund reproductive health patient navigators for individuals seeking abortion services.

To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a grant program for planting of qualifying trees in eligible areas, and for other purposes.

Recognizing the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education.

To establish within the Department of Health and Human Services a Division on Community Safety, and for other purposes.

To provide for disadvantaged business enterprise supportive services programs at modal administrations of the Department of Transportation, and for other purposes.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to remove the record of default on a loan made, insured, or guaranteed under title IV from a borrower’s credit history upon repayment of the full amount due on such loan.

To prohibit the imposition of the death penalty for any violation of Federal law, and for other purposes.

To establish a program to provide low- and moderate-income first-time, first-generation homebuyers with access to affordable and sustainable wealth-building home loans.

To protect our Social Security system and improve benefits for current and future generations.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to remove all adverse credit history related to a loan from the credit history of a borrower who has rehabilitated the loan.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the removal of the record of default from credit history upon obtaining a Federal Direct Consolidation Loan that discharges the defaulted loan.