H.R. 5347: Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-12-06 · Water Resources Development · Latest: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 555.

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Where it came from: introduced 2019-12-06 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Cox, TJ [D-CA-21] · what a sponsor is
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Where it stands now: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 555. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act

Plain summary

Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act This bill requires the Department of the Interior to establish a Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Program. Under the program, Interior must provide grants to assist communities that have experienced a significant decline in quantity or quality of drinking water in obtaining or maintaining adequate quantities of water that meet drinking water quality standards. Specifically, grants must be provided to communities that are unable to meet primary drinking water quality standards or to communities with water supplies that have been lost or severely diminished due to drought conditions, groundwater overdraft conditions, or climate change conditions. Grants must benefit communities with a median household income below a certain threshold located in a city, town, or special district with a population of no more than 60,000 residents.

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Official text

Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to House, Part I)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Cox, TJ [D-CA-21] · 3 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 5347, Disadvantaged Community Drinking Water Assistance Act (2020-06-12)

Cosponsors on this site

Jim Costa (D-CA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA)

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to House, Part I)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116hr5347.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr>

Record fed-us-cong116-hr5347 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116