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S. 211: Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2009

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S. 211: Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2009

111th Congress · introduced 2009-01-12 · Science, Technology, Communications · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2009-01-12 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2009

Plain summary

Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award a grant to each state to carry out a program for making available throughout that state the 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on human services. Requires a participating state to ensure that at least 50% of the resources of the program funded by the grant will be derived from other sources. Requires a state seeking a grant to carry out its activities through a lead entity to be known as a 2-1-1 Collaborative. Requires grant amounts to be used solely to make available to a state 2-1-1 telephone service for community information and referral on human services to all citizens of that state with phone access, including telephone connections between families and individuals seeking services and the service providers. Requires grant recipients to: (1) abide by the Key Standards for 2-1-1 Centers; and (2) collaborate with human service organizations to provide an exhaustive database of services with which to provide information or referral to individuals utilizing the 2-1-1 service.

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Official text

Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2009

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] · 61 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Jack Reed (D-RI), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and 1 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong111-s211 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111