House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJan 8, 2019
- Committee actionJul 11, 2019
- Passed HouseSep 10, 2019 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 11, 2019 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 281.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 281, Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2019” on August 19, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on July 11, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 19, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55563
- CBO publication date
- August 19, 2019
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 281, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/281
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. BEATTY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 3, January 8, 2019, Page H285):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 8, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 281, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/281
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4d232cde617e8126ccb21970f5980fb0af506e7fbc759f3d46977e919d7c6dda
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 committee report (as of December 5, 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
40 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 37 Democrats
3 of 40 cosponsors (8%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Karen Bass (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), David Cicilline (D-RI), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), James Clyburn (D-SC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Val Demings (D-FL), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Marcia Fudge (D-OH), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Al Lawson (D-FL), John Lewis (D-GA), A. McEachin (D-VA), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) and 10 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joyce Beatty.
- H.R. 5315 (116th) Expanding Opportunity for Minority Depository Institutions Act
- H.R. 2162 (116th) Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2019
- H.R. 3618 (116th) Free Credit Scores for Consumers Act of 2019
- H.R. 3082 (116th) Woman on the Twenty Act of 2019
- H.Res. 990 (116th) Recognizing racism as a national crisis and the need for a truth and reconciliation process.
- H.R. 8595 (116th) To nullify the effect of Executive Order 13950 relating to combating race and sex stereotyping.
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.