House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas Suozzi D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 10, 2019
- Committee actionDec 11, 2019
- Passed HouseDec 19, 2019 · 218–206
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 3, 2020 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5377.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5377, Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act” on December 13, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on December 11, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 13, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55956
- CBO publication date
- December 13, 2019
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5377, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5377
- 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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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 116-345 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on December 13, 2019.Source: Congress.gov, reported December 13, 2019 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/116/HRPT/345
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5377, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5377
- 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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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SUOZZI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 197, December 10, 2019, Page H10016):The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Sections 7 & 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution and Amendment XVI of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 10, 2019 ↗
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 156 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5377, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/5377
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
27f8a2222ccd73aa33811d6c634330f773d493052a8e83940c165bd649fe86d4
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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
52 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 51 Democrats
1 of 52 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.
Donald Beyer (D-VA), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Sean Casten (D-IL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), J. Correa (D-CA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Angie Craig (D-MN), Danny Davis (D-IL), Susan Davis (D-CA), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Josh Harder (D-CA), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Peter King (R-NY), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), John Larson (D-CT), Mike Levin (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), Sean Maloney (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and 22 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.