House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
100 Years of Women in Congress Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 12, 2016
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseApr 18, 2016 · 377–6
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 19, 2016 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4570.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MENG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 26, February 12, 2016, Page H818):Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 12, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 45 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4570, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4570
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 14, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
185cb6f83d6d54bbfb4526a56f9b188c8bd47adbb9457ccb617a34a06442d937
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 14, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4570, last updated January 14, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
49 cosponsors — 9 Republicans, 40 Democrats
9 of 49 cosponsors (18%) are from the other party.
Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Judy Chu (D-CA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), John Conyers (D-MI), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Danny Davis (D-IL), Donna Edwards (D-MD), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Christopher Gibson (R-NY), Al Green (D-TX), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Michael Honda (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), William Keating (D-MA), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN) and 19 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Grace Meng.
- H.R. 4238 (114th) To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize…
- H.R. 2669 (114th) Anti-Spoofing Act of 2016
- H.R. 5980 (114th) Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act
- H.R. 3384 (114th) Quiet Communities Act of 2015
- H.R. 2836 (114th) Fair Access for Moms Act
- H.Res. 94 (114th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued in honor of the Chinese railroad…
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.