Expressing support for the staff of public, school, academic, and special libraries in the United States and the essential services those libraries provide to communities, recognizing the need for funding commensurate with the broad scope of social service and community supports provided by libraries, preserving the right of all citizens of the United States to freely access information and resources in their communities, supporting a strong union voice for library workers, and defending the civil rights of library staff.

3.0.0 169 2025-12-05T22:48:18Z 2025-12-05T22:48:18Z Senate S SRES 2025-04-10 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/169 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-04-10T16:22:30Z Expressing support for the staff of public, school, academic, and special libraries in the United States and the essential services those libraries provide to communities, recognizing the need for funding commensurate with the broad scope of social service and community supports provided by libraries, preserving the right of all citizens of the United States to freely access information and resources in their communities, supporting a strong union voice for library workers, and defending the civil rights of library staff. 119 328 HRES 2025-04-10 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Identical bill CRS 2025-04-10 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2025-04-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2025-04-10 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2025-04-10 True P000145 Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] Alex Padilla D CA 2025-04-10 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2025-04-10 True V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD 2025-04-10 True B001303 Sen. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE] Lisa Blunt Rochester D DE 2025-04-29 False Arts, Culture, Religion Arts, Culture, Religion 2025-05-02T13:06:10Z A resolution expressing support for the staff of public, school, academic, and special libraries in the United States and the essential services those libraries provide to communities, recognizing the need for funding commensurate with the broad scope of social service and community supports provided by libraries, preserving the right of all citizens of the United States to freely access information and resources in their communities, supporting a strong union voice for library workers, and defending the civil rights of library staff. Official Title as Introduced 6 A resolution expressing support for the staff of public, school, academic, and special libraries in the United States and the essential services those libraries provide to communities, recognizing the need for funding commensurate with the broad scope of social service and community supports provided by libraries, preserving the right of all citizens of the United States to freely access information and resources in their communities, supporting a strong union voice for library workers, and defending the civil rights of library staff. 2025-04-16T02:48:29Z Introduced in Senate IS Display Title 45 A resolution expressing support for the staff of public, school, academic, and special libraries in the United States and the essential services those libraries provide to communities, recognizing the need for funding commensurate with the broad scope of social service and community supports provided by libraries, preserving the right of all citizens of the United States to freely access information and resources in their communities, supporting a strong union voice for library workers, and defending the civil rights of library staff. 2025-04-11T10:56:34Z Introduced in Senate 2025-04-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119sres169is/xml/BILLS-119sres169is.xml 2025-04-10 Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.