Bonnie Watson Coleman

Supporting the designation of March 2024 as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

To address food and housing insecurity on college campuses.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that paraprofessionals and education support staff should have fair compensation, benefits, and working conditions.

To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of Benjamin Franklin for placement in the Capitol.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to track and record additional information on hate crimes, 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 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 amend chapter 3081 of title 54, United States Code, to enhance the protection and preservation of America’s battlefields.

To establish a grant program to provide schools with opioid overdose reversal drugs, to direct schools receiving Federal funds to report to certain Federal information systems any distribution of an opioid overdose reversal drug, and for other purposes.

To divert Federal funding away from supporting the presence of police in schools and toward evidence-based and trauma informed services that address the needs of marginalized students and improve academic outcomes, and for other purposes.

To provide for a grant program to support access to free eye care services for students attending public elementary schools and secondary schools.

Expressing support for the recognition of October 26, 2023, as Intersex Awareness Day, and supporting the goals and ideals of Intersex Awareness Day.

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for assistance in hiring additional school-based mental health and student service providers.

To address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.

To require institutions of higher education to designate at least one employee to coordinate compliance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and for other purposes.

Supporting the designation of October 7, 2023, as National Ostomy Awareness Day.

To establish and carry out a comprehensive, nationwide, energy-related industries jobs program, and for other purposes.

To establish a Green New Deal for public schools.

To establish a climate resilience workforce, and for other purposes.

To ensure greater equity in Federal disaster assistance policies and programs by authorizing an equity steering group and equity advisor within the Federal Emergency Management Agency, improving data collection to measure disparate outcomes and participation barriers, requiring equity criteria to be applied to policies and programs, and for other purposes.