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H.R. 4479: Families of Flint Act

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H.R. 4479: Families of Flint Act

114th Congress · introduced 2016-02-04 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H598)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2016-02-04 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H598) 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.

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Official title

Families of Flint Act

Plain summary

Families of Flint Act This bill provides support for Flint, Michigan in addressing lead in the city's drinking water and related issues. The bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by establishing a 10-year grant program to ensure that Flint's drinking water does not contain: (1) lead levels that threaten public health or the environment, or (2) other drinking water contaminants and pathogens that threaten public health. The bill also establishes specified grant programs for assisting Flint that are established within the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The bill amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, by allowing states to use more than 20% of funds from Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants for addressing a threat to public health from heightened exposure to lead in a municipal drinking water supply if a federal or state emergency declaration has been issued for that threat. HHS must establish in Flint a Center of Excellence on Lead Exposure. The bill amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase the allowable participation period in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children for children residing in areas that are in a state of emergency. A state may elect to allow those children to participate in the program for a period that ends on the earlier of: (1) the child's tenth birthday (currently fifth), or (2) five years after the emergency (currently children may participate for a one-year period).

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Families of Flint Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5] · 173 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Ted Lieu (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Adam Smith (D-WA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Stacey E. Plaskett (D-VI), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), John Garamendi (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and 113 more.

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Appropriation
Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr4479 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114