House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Equal Justice Under Law Act of 2016
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 29, 2016
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 17, 2016 — Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5124.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 67, April 29, 2016, Page H2150):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 29, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5124, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5124
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
5948aaad486fcae4bc71013fa5258dcbb465f45f58fa164dc021050ae5ee13b6
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 August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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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
16 cosponsors — 16 Democrats
0 of 16 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), John Conyers (D-MI), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), John Lewis (D-GA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Cedric Richmond (D-LA), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
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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.