3.0.0 5705 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z House H HR 2023-09-26 118 <pre>[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 156 (Tuesday, September 26, 2023)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mrs. DINGELL:H.R. 5705.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The Constitutional authority of Congress to enact thislegislation is provided by Article I, Section 8 of the UnitedStates Constitution.The single subject of this legislation is:To support training and resource centers to ensureindividuals with communication disabilities have access toaugmentative and alternative communication.[Page H4500]</pre> hspw00 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee House Standing hspw13 Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee Referred to 2023-09-27T14:03:13Z Referred To 2023-09-26T16:05:10Z hsed00 Education and Workforce Committee House Standing Referred To 2023-09-26T16:05:05Z 118 4643 HR 2023-07-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Related bill CRS 118 128 S 2023-01-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Related bill CRS 118 2904 S 2023-09-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2023-09-27 hspw13 Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Committee 2023-09-26 Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hspw00 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 2023-09-26 Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and Workforce Committee 2023-09-26 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2023-09-26 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress D000624 Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6] Debbie Dingell D MI 6 N D000623 Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10] Mark DeSaulnier D CA 10 2023-09-26 True Health Advisory bodies 2024-04-16T17:15:08Z Arizona 2024-04-16T17:15:47Z Border security and unlawful immigration 2024-04-16T17:16:00Z Congressional oversight 2024-04-16T17:14:35Z Disability and health-based discrimination 2024-04-16T17:12:33Z Disability and paralysis 2024-04-16T17:14:55Z Disability assistance 2024-04-16T17:15:02Z Drug trafficking and controlled substances 2024-04-16T17:16:08Z Government information and archives 2024-04-16T17:14:24Z Health programs administration and funding 2024-04-16T17:13:41Z Health promotion and preventive care 2024-04-16T17:13:51Z Hearing, speech, and vision care 2024-04-16T17:15:15Z Higher education 2024-04-16T17:15:29Z Intergovernmental relations 2024-04-16T17:15:54Z Land transfers 2024-04-16T17:16:16Z Latin America 2024-04-16T17:16:20Z Mexico 2024-04-16T17:16:23Z Smuggling and trafficking 2024-04-16T17:16:12Z Solid waste and recycling 2024-04-16T17:15:42Z State and local government operations 2024-04-16T17:15:23Z Water resources funding 2024-04-16T17:15:36Z Health 2023-11-21T19:15:28Z

00 2023-09-26 Introduced in House 2025-01-17T19:52:05Z <p><strong>Augmentative and Alternative Communication Centers of Excellence and National Technical Assistance Act or the AACCENT Act</strong></p><p>This bill establishes a grant program to create national resource centers on augmentative and alternative communication.</p><p>Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award three grants in geographically diverse regions to establish a network of these resource centers for individuals with significant expressive communication disabilities, particularly through improved access to tools, technologies, strategies, training, and other methods.</p><p><em>Significant expressive communication disabilities</em> are communication disabilities (other than communication disabilities that are primarily visual or auditory in nature) that prevent or significantly limit an individual from understanding or being understood using spoken words.</p><p><em>Nogales Wastewater Improvement Act of 2023</em></p><p>The bill also establishes requirements to address wastewater from the International Outfall Interceptor, which is a pipeline that carries wastewater from the United States-Mexico border to the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant. The plant, which is located in Rio Rico, Arizona, treats sewage and wastewater originating from Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona.</p><p>The bill transfers the ownership, operations, and maintenance of the pipeline from the city of Nogales, Arizona, to the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission. The commission must construct, operate, and maintain a debris screen at the pipeline's Manhole One for intercepting debris and drugs coming into the United States from Nogales, Mexico.</p><p>The bill also limits the portion of the costs that the city of Nogales, Arizona, must pay for the Nogales sanitation project.</p>

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