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H.R. 6626: Girls LEAD Act

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H.R. 6626: Girls LEAD Act

116th Congress · introduced 2020-04-24 · International Affairs · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2020-04-24 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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What does this mean?

Official title

Girls LEAD Act

Plain summary

Girls' Leadership, Engagement, Agency, and Development Act of 2019 or the Girls LEAD Act This bill directs the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to jointly report to Congress a strategy to strengthen the participation of adolescents, particularly girls, in democracy, human rights, and governance. The State Department and the USAID shall (1) implement activities to achieve this goal, including activities to increase adolescent girls' civic and political knowledge and skills and address barriers to political participation; and (2) prioritize foreign assistance funding for democracy, human rights, and governance programs toward achieving the goals in this bill.

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Official text

Girls LEAD Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6] · 45 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Troy Balderson (R-OH), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Don Bacon (R-NE), Bill Foster (D-IL), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Ed Case (D-HI), Tom Cole (R-OK), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Grace Meng (D-NY), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr6626 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116