2021-2022 Regular Session • US Congress Legislature
HB2116: CROWN Act of 2022 Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2022
Legislative Summary
To prohibit discrimination based on an individual's texture or style of hair.
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Bill History
3/19/2021
Introduced in House
House of Representatives
3/19/2021
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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 of Representatives
9/30/2021
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
House of Representatives
9/30/2021
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 15.
House of Representatives
10/19/2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
House of Representatives
2/25/2022
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 117-252, Part I.
House of Representatives
2/25/2022
Committee on Education and Labor discharged.
House of Representatives
2/25/2022
Committee on the Budget discharged.
House of Representatives
2/25/2022
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 182.
House of Representatives
2/28/2022
Mr. Nadler moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
House of Representatives
2/28/2022
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1160-1166)
House of Representatives
2/28/2022
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2116.
House of Representatives
2/28/2022
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
House of Representatives
2/28/2022
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1172-1173)
House of Representatives
2/28/2022
Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 235 - 188 (Roll no. 48). (text: CR H1160-1162)
House of Representatives
2/28/2022
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 235 - 188 (Roll no. 48). (text: CR H1160-1162)
House of Representatives
3/15/2022
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 979 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 963 and H.R. 2116. The rule provides for one hour of general debate on both H.R. 963 and H.R. 2116.
House of Representatives
3/16/2022
Rule H. Res. 979 passed House.
House of Representatives
3/18/2022
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 979. (consideration: CR H3833-3842)
House of Representatives
3/18/2022
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 963 and H.R. 2116. The rule provides for one hour of general debate on both H.R. 963 and H.R. 2116.
House of Representatives
3/18/2022
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 2116.
House of Representatives
3/18/2022
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
House of Representatives
3/18/2022
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 235 - 189 (Roll no. 82). (text: CR H3833-3834)
House of Representatives
3/18/2022
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
House of Representatives
3/21/2022
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Senate
Roll Call Votes
On passage
3/18/2022
235
Yea
189
Nay
0
Not Voting
8
Absent
Result: PASSED
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended
2/28/2022
235
Yea
188
Nay
0
Not Voting
10
Absent
Result: FAILED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(3/21/2022)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Judiciary(Senate)
Sponsors
Democrat: 116
Republican: 1
Primary Sponsor
Bonnie Coleman
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (116)
Barbara Lee
Democrat
Ayanna Pressley
Democrat
Ilhan Omar
Democrat
Gwen Moore
Democrat
Joyce Beatty
Democrat
Carolyn Maloney
Democrat
Lisa Rochester
Democrat
Danny Davis
Democrat
Brenda Lawrence
Democrat
Bennie Thompson
Democrat
Frederica Wilson
Democrat
Anthony Brown
Democrat
Yvette Clarke
Democrat
Val Demings
Democrat
Dwight Evans
Democrat
Eleanor Norton
Democrat
G. Butterfield
Democrat
Adriano Espaillat
Democrat
Nikema Williams
Democrat
Steven Horsford
Democrat
Eddie Johnson
Democrat
Joaquin Castro
Democrat
Robin Kelly
Democrat
Donald Payne
Democrat
Ro Khanna
Democrat
Cori Bush
Democrat
Jahana Hayes
Democrat
Jerrold Nadler
Democrat
Marilyn Strickland
Democrat
Alcee Hastings
Democrat
Steve Cohen
Democrat
Al Lawson
Democrat
John Yarmuth
Democrat
Anna Eshoo
Democrat
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democrat
Katherine Clark
Democrat
Jamaal Bowman
Democrat
William Keating
Democrat
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democrat
Ritchie Torres
Democrat
Deborah Ross
Democrat
Mark Pocan
Democrat
Terri Sewell
Democrat
Karen Bass
Democrat
Bobby Rush
Democrat
Gregory Meeks
Democrat
Stacey Plaskett
Democrat
David Price
Democrat
Bill Foster
Democrat
Sara Jacobs
Democrat
Alma Adams
Democrat
Andre Carson
Democrat
Ruben Gallego
Democrat
Hakeem Jeffries
Democrat
Maxine Waters
Democrat
Sheila Jackson-Lee
Democrat
Don Bacon
Republican
Mondaire Jones
Democrat
David Trone
Democrat
David Cicilline
Democrat
Kurt Schrader
Democrat
Sanford Bishop
Democrat
Emanuel Cleaver
Democrat
Marc Veasey
Democrat
Colin Allred
Democrat
Lucy McBath
Democrat
Joseph Neguse
Democrat
Kweisi Mfume
Democrat
Rashida Tlaib
Democrat
Mary Gay Scanlon
Democrat
Janice Schakowsky
Democrat
Kathy Castor
Democrat
Henry Johnson
Democrat
Al Green
Democrat
Troy Carter
Democrat
Earl Blumenauer
Democrat
Bill Pascrell
Democrat
James Clyburn
Democrat
Tony Cardenas
Democrat
Lauren Underwood
Democrat
Derek Kilmer
Democrat
Gerald Connolly
Democrat
Pramila Jayapal
Democrat
Mark DeSaulnier
Democrat
Veronica Escobar
Democrat
Greg Stanton
Democrat
Lois Frankel
Democrat
Frank Pallone
Democrat
Sean Maloney
Democrat
John Larson
Democrat
Ted Lieu
Democrat
Tim Ryan
Democrat
Sylvia Garcia
Democrat
James McGovern
Democrat
Jamie Raskin
Democrat
Mike Quigley
Democrat
Kathy Manning
Democrat
Madeleine Dean
Democrat
Brendan Boyle
Democrat
Mark Takano
Democrat
Luis Correa
Democrat
Theodore Deutch
Democrat
Albio Sires
Democrat
Donald Norcross
Democrat
Rebecca Sherrill
Democrat
Suzanne Bonamici
Democrat
Jim Cooper
Democrat
Shontel Brown
Democrat
Suzan DelBene
Democrat
Chellie Pingree
Democrat
Tom Malinowski
Democrat
Andy Kim
Democrat
Carolyn Bourdeaux
Democrat
John Garamendi
Democrat
Donald McEachin
Democrat
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
Democrat