House bill · 116th Congress · Public Law 116-218
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1201 Sycamore Square Drive in Midlothian, Virginia, as the "Dorothy Braden Bruce Post Office Building".
Became law on Dec 17, 2020.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 1, 2019
- Committee actionDec 19, 2019
- Passed HouseSep 14, 2020 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateDec 3, 2020 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentDec 11, 2020
- Became lawDec 17, 2020
Latest action: Dec 17, 2020 — Became Public Law No: 116-218.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4975.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4975, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1201 Sycamore Square Drive in Midlothian, Virginia, as the "Dorothy Braden Bruce Post Office Building"” on September 15, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on December 19, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 15, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56586
- CBO publication date
- September 15, 2020
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4975, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4975
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 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 Ms. SPANBERGER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 174, November 1, 2019, Page H8724):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 1, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4975, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4975
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4975, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 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
10 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 6 Democrats
4 of 10 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Donald Beyer (D-VA), Ben Cline (R-VA), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), H. Griffith (R-VA), Elaine Luria (D-VA), A. McEachin (D-VA), Denver Riggleman (R-VA), Robert Scott (D-VA), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), Robert Wittman (R-VA).
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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.