H.R. 4699 · 118th Congress

The People’s Response Act

Introduced on Jul 18, 2023 by Cori Bush (D-MO-1). 37 cosponsors, all from the sponsor's party. Latest action (Jul 21, 2023): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Jul 18, 2023
Cosponsors
37
0 from the other party
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

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

Subjects

  • Accounting and auditing
  • Advisory bodies
  • Agricultural marketing and promotion
  • Child health
  • Child safety and welfare
  • Community life and organization
  • Congressional oversight
  • Crime prevention
  • Crime victims
  • Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Detention of persons
  • Disability and health-based discrimination
  • Domestic violence and child abuse
  • Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
  • Education programs funding
  • Elementary and secondary education
  • Emergency communications systems
  • Emergency medical services and trauma care
  • Employee hiring
  • Employment and training programs
  • Environmental health
  • Evidence and witnesses
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Family services
  • First responders and emergency personnel
  • Food industry and services
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
  • Health care coverage and access
  • Health personnel
  • Health programs administration and funding
  • Homelessness and emergency shelter
  • Housing and community development funding
  • Housing supply and affordability
  • Immigration status and procedures
  • Infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Infrastructure development
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Law enforcement administration and funding
  • Mental health
  • Nutrition and diet
  • Parks, recreation areas, trails
  • Public transit
  • Racial and ethnic relations
  • Sex offenses
  • Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
  • Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
  • Telephone and wireless communication
  • Violent crime
  • Wages and earnings

Summary

The Congressional Research Service has not summarized this measure yet.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Cori BushD-MO-1Sponsor

Democrats · 37

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Jul 18, 2023Introduced in House
  2. Jul 18, 2023Introduced in House
  3. Jul 18, 2023 · HouseReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
  4. Jul 18, 2023 · HouseReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
  5. Jul 18, 2023 · HouseReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
  6. Jul 18, 2023 · HouseReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
  7. Jul 18, 2023 · HouseReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
  8. Jul 19, 2023 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
  9. Jul 21, 2023 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. Big Cities Health Coalition1 report
    $40K reported (all issues)
  2. CONFERENCE OF PROVINCIALS OF NORTH AMERICA1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2024.

Sources and method

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  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.