[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1158 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1158

  To provide women and girls safe access to sanitation facilities in 
                             refugee camps.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2021

 Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. 
   Espaillat, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McGovern, Ms. 
  Norton, Ms. Omar, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. 
Sires, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Soto, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. 
Costa, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Mr. Welch, Mr. Harder 
of California, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Vela, and Ms. Barragan) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                            Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide women and girls safe access to sanitation facilities in 
                             refugee camps.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Refugee Sanitation Facility Safety 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. SECURE ACCESS TO SANITATION FACILITIES FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS.

    Subsection (a) of section 501 of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 2601 note) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through (11) as 
        paragraphs (7) through (12), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(6) the provision of safe and secure access to sanitation 
        facilities, with a special emphasis on women, girls, and 
        vulnerable populations.''.
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