21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act
Summary
21st Century Federal Writers' Project Act This bill creates a grant program in the Department of Labor to provide eligible entities with funds to assist individuals who are unemployed or underemployed in order to document in writing and images American society and the broad impacts and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In addition, Labor must (1) establish a repository of works developed through the grant program in which grantees submit completed works from subgrantees, including giving credit to each writer or artist, and make such works available to the public; and (2) forward the completed work to the Library of Congress to archive such material. The Library must establish an archive program in its American Folklife Center for collection and public availability, in a digital format of such written and visual works.
Bill status
in committee
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Introduction
May 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 7, 2021
Last action May 7, 2021
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May 7, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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.
lower
May 7, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
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1 primary · 26 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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Ted Lieu
DDemocratic
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Adam B. Schiff
DDemocratic
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Adriano Espaillat
DDemocratic
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André Carson
DDemocratic
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David N. Cicilline
DDemocratic
Co
Deborah K. Ross
DDemocratic
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Derek Kilmer
DDemocratic
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Donald M. Payne, Jr.
DDemocratic
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Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
DDemocratic
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Gwen Moore
DDemocratic
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