House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
VA Employee Fairness Act of 2019
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 8, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 10, 2020 — Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1133.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. WEXTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 173, October 31, 2019, Pages H8720-H8721):Article 1, Section 8, clause 7 By Miss. RICE of New York: H.R. 4972. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions, as follows: H.R. 3: Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Perlmutter, and Ms. Davids of Kansas. H.R. 35: Mr. Neguse. H.R. 40: Ms. DeGette. H.R. 180: Mr. Thompson of Mississippi. H.R. 230: Mr. Lewis. H.R. 566: Mr. Suozzi. H.R. 838: Mr. Meeks and Mr. Rogers of Kentucky. H.R. 849: Mr. Langevin and Mr. Casten of Illinois. H.R. 935: Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania and Mr. Rogers of Kentucky. H.R. 1043: Mr. Cunningham and…Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 31, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 3,657 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1133, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/1133
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 December 6, 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
86 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 85 Democrats
0 of 86 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Ami Bera (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Anthony Brindisi (D-NY), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), James Cooper (D-TN), Tj Cox (D-CA), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), John Garamendi (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Josh Harder (D-CA), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Katie Hill (D-CA) and 56 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Takano.
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- H.R. 4920 (116th) Department of Veterans Affairs Contracting Preference Consistency Act of 2020
- H.R. 8247 (116th) Veterans COMPACT Act of 2020
- H.R. 6322 (116th) Student Veteran Coronavirus Response Act of 2020
- H.R. 3197 (116th) Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2019
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.