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Seal of the United States Congress House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showing support for the Heroes Act. The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, or Heroes Act (), was proposed legislation acting as a $3 trillion stimulus package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, intended to supplement the earlier CARES Act stimulus package. [1]
[7] [8] In 1984, it became the Office of Emergency Preparedness within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. [ 9 ] In 2002, as a result of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 , it became the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness ( OPHEP ), and was elevated to be headed by an ...
Witt was mentioned as a potential candidate for Governor of Arkansas in 1997 but took himself out of consideration and stayed at FEMA until he was replaced by Joe Allbaugh, the first appointee of President George W. Bush. Witt announced in October 2013 that he expected to run for Congress in 2014 in Arkansas's 4th congressional district.
Jerrilyn is currently an emergency room physician and associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS). [ 14 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] At UAMS, Jerrilyn became the inaugural director of the post-baccalaureate program, which intends to serve as a bridge for students who may have a difficult time getting ...
The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 is a United States federal law that provides federal money for homeless shelter programs. [1] [2] It was the first significant federal legislative response to homelessness, [3] and was passed by the 100th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 22, 1987. [4]
Heavy rain pounded northern Arkansas and southern Missouri through much of the morning. Seven inches of rain fell in less than six hours in Branson, Missouri, where roughly 14,000 people live, a ...
PACE financing (property assessed clean energy financing) is a means used in the United States of America of financing energy efficiency upgrades, disaster resiliency improvements, water conservation measures, or renewable energy installations in existing or new construction of residential, commercial, and industrial property owners.
In 2016, Arkansas Children's Research Institute received a $9.4 million award from the National Institutes of Health's Institutional Development Award program to create a center to study childhood obesity: the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). The grant will provide the funds over five years to support COBRE research.