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H.R. 8017: MOTION Act

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H.R. 8017: MOTION Act

116th Congress · introduced 2020-08-11 · Health · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2020-08-11 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Mucarsel-Powell, Debbie [D-FL-26] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 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

MOTION Act

Plain summary

Mobile Options for Testing In Our Neighborhoods Act or the MOTION Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants within 120 days to, among others, specified health facilities, governmental health departments, and nonprofits for establishing or maintaining mobile testing programs for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) and the virus that causes it. In awarding these grants, HHS must take into account certain state-based plans for COVID-19 testing and give priority to applicants that serve communities with limited access to transportation, medically underserved populations, and areas with shortages of health professionals.

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

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What does this mean? (plain words)

Official text

MOTION Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Mucarsel-Powell, Debbie [D-FL-26] · 50 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), James E. Clyburn (D-SC), Darren Soto (D-FL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Dina Titus (D-NV), Raul Ruiz (D-CA), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), André Carson (D-IN), Mike Levin (D-CA), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Norma J. Torres (D-CA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr8017 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116