{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-5547","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 5547","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"CEDS Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to require eligible recipients of certain grants to develop a comprehensive economic development strategy that directly or indirectly increases the accessibility of affordable, quality care-based services, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to require eligible recipients of certain grants to develop a comprehensive economic development strategy that directly or indirectly increases the accessibility of affordable, quality care-based services, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Care is an Economic Development Strategy Act"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) 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adjustment assistance funding provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act."}],"words":90},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 so that comprehensive economic development strategies must directly or indirectly increase access to affordable, quality care-based services, and requires a Department of Commerce inspector general report on CARES Act economic adjustment assistance.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5547/text/eh#H275E1076F36E4E9490FDDC24C4606976"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5547/text/eh#H6DF4F71CCB3D4C6F95EE0C16C25EE4AD"}]},"core_areas":["Care-based services in comprehensive economic development strategies","Commerce Department guidance on implementing the strategy requirement","Inspector general reporting on CARES Act economic adjustment 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it.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5547/text/eh#H6DF4F71CCB3D4C6F95EE0C16C25EE4AD"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5547/text/eh#H275E1076F36E4E9490FDDC24C4606976"},"heading":"Comprehensive economic development strategies","effect":"Grant recipients whose economic development strategy was approved before enactment are required to update it for the new care-based services language only when a regularly scheduled update is due.","amount":null,"quote":"such grant recipient is only required to update such comprehensive economic development strategy to comply with the amendments made by this Act when a regularly scheduled update"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2022-03-30","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5547/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5547","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5547/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-5547.png","v":"30db9e6ca414","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 5547, 117th Congress: CEDS Act. House: 304 Yea, 122 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 30 Mar 2022."}}