HR-8406 : Still Just a Bill

The Heroes Act

This bill provides additional appropriations, modifies existing programs and requirements, and establishes new programs to address the continued impact of COVID-19 on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses.

Action Timeline

Action DateTypeTextSource
2020-09-29IntroReferralReferred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.House floor actions
2020-09-29IntroReferralReferred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.House floor actions
2020-09-29IntroReferralReferred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.House floor actions
2020-09-29IntroReferralIntroduced in HouseLibrary of Congress

Policy Area :

Economics and Public Finance
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  • Accounting and auditing
  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Administrative remedies
  • Adoption and foster care
  • Adult day care
  • Adult education and literacy
  • Advisory bodies
  • African Development Foundation
  • Aging
  • Agricultural conservation and pollution
  • Agricultural marketing and promotion
  • Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
  • Air quality
  • Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
  • Allied health services
  • Alternative and renewable resources
  • American Battle Monuments Commission
  • American Samoa
  • Animal and plant health
  • Appropriations
  • Architect of the Capitol
  • Asia
  • Assault and harassment offenses
  • Aviation and airports
  • Bank accounts, deposits, capital
  • Banking and financial institutions regulation
  • Bankruptcy
  • Blood and blood diseases
  • Border security and unlawful immigration
  • Business expenses
  • Business investment and capital
  • Business records
  • Buy American requirements
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular and respiratory health
  • Caribbean area
  • Cemeteries and funerals
  • Census and government statistics
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Child care and development
  • Child health
  • Citizenship and naturalization
  • Civil actions and liability
  • Community life and organization
  • Commuting
  • Computer security and identity theft
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
  • Congressional agencies
  • Congressional officers and employees
  • Congressional oversight
  • Congressional-executive branch relations
  • Consumer affairs
  • Consumer credit
  • Corporation for National and Community Service
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Correctional facilities and imprisonment
  • Credit and credit markets
  • Crime victims
  • Crimes against women
  • Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
  • Criminal justice information and records
  • Criminal procedure and sentencing
  • Debt collection
  • Defense spending
  • Department of Agriculture
  • Department of Commerce
  • Department of Defense
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Energy
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Department of Justice
  • Department of Labor
  • Department of State
  • Department of Transportation
  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Department of the Interior
  • Department of the Treasury
  • Detention of persons
  • Digestive and metabolic diseases
  • Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
  • Disability and health-based discrimination
  • Disability and paralysis
  • Disability assistance
  • Disaster relief and insurance
  • District of Columbia
  • Domestic violence and child abuse
  • Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
  • Drug therapy
  • Drug trafficking and controlled substances
  • Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
  • Due process and equal protection
  • Economic performance and conditions
  • Education programs funding
  • Educational facilities and institutions
  • Educational technology and distance education
  • Election Assistance Commission
  • Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
  • Electric power generation and transmission
  • Elementary and secondary education
  • Emergency communications systems
  • Emergency medical services and trauma care
  • Emergency planning and evacuation
  • Employee benefits and pensions
  • Employee hiring
  • Employee leave
  • Employment and training programs
  • Employment discrimination and employee rights
  • Employment taxes
  • Energy assistance for the poor and aged
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Environmental health
  • Evidence and witnesses
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Family services
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • Federal Reserve System
  • Federal officials
  • Federal-Indian relations
  • Financial services and investments
  • Fires
  • First responders and emergency personnel
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Food assistance and relief
  • Food industry and services
  • Food supply, safety, and labeling
  • Foreign aid and international relief
  • Foreign labor
  • Foreign language and bilingual programs
  • Foreign loans and debt
  • Fraud offenses and financial crimes
  • Fruit and vegetables
  • General Services Administration
  • Government Accountability Office (GAO)
  • Government Publishing Office (GPO)
  • Government buildings, facilities, and property
  • Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government information and archives
  • Government lending and loan guarantees
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Government trust funds
  • Guam
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Hate crimes
  • Health care costs and insurance
  • Health care coverage and access
  • Health care quality
  • Health facilities and institutions
  • Health information and medical records
  • Health personnel
  • Health programs administration and funding
  • Health promotion and preventive care
  • Health technology, devices, supplies
  • Higher education
  • Home and outpatient care
  • Homelessness and emergency shelter
  • Hospital care
  • House of Representatives
  • Housing and community development funding
  • Housing discrimination
  • Housing finance and home ownership
  • Housing for the elderly and disabled
  • Housing supply and affordability
  • Humanities programs funding
  • Immigration status and procedures
  • Immunology and vaccination
  • Income tax credits
  • Income tax deductions
  • Income tax exclusion
  • Indian lands and resources rights
  • Indian social and development programs
  • Infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Inflation and prices
  • Insurance industry and regulation
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Interest, dividends, interest rates
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
  • International organizations and cooperation
  • Internet and video services
  • Internet, web applications, social media
  • Iran
  • Judicial procedure and administration
  • Juvenile crime and gang violence
  • Labor-management relations
  • Landlord and tenant
  • Law enforcement administration and funding
  • Law enforcement officers
  • Lawyers and legal services
  • Legal Services Corporation
  • Libraries and archives
  • Library of Congress
  • Licensing and registrations
  • Life, casualty, property insurance
  • Lighting, heating, cooling
  • Livestock
  • Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
  • Low- and moderate-income housing
  • Manufacturing
  • Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
  • Marine and inland water transportation
  • Marshall Islands
  • Meat
  • Medicaid
  • Medical education
  • Medical research
  • Medical tests and diagnostic methods
  • Medicare
  • Mental health
  • Micronesia
  • Middle East
  • Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
  • Military civil functions
  • Military history
  • Military medicine
  • Military operations and strategy
  • Military personnel and dependents
  • Military procurement, research, weapons development
  • Minority and disadvantaged businesses
  • Minority education
  • Minority health
  • Monuments and memorials
  • Motor carriers
  • Multilateral development programs
  • Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
  • Music
  • National Archives and Records Administration
  • National Credit Union Administration
  • National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
  • National Guard and reserves
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
  • National Science Foundation
  • National and community service
  • Natural disasters
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • Neurological disorders
  • News media and reporting
  • North Korea
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Nursing
  • Nutrition and diet
  • Oceania
  • Office of Personnel Management (OPM)