House bill · 116th Congress · Public Law 116-42
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 770 Ayrault Road in Fairport, New York, as the "Louise and Bob Slaughter Post Office".
Became law on Aug 21, 2019.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 14, 2019
- Committee actionMar 26, 2019
- Passed HouseApr 2, 2019 · 414–7
- Passed SenateJul 30, 2019 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentAug 13, 2019
- Became lawAug 21, 2019
Latest action: Aug 21, 2019 — Became Public Law No: 116-42.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 540.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MORELLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 7, January 14, 2019, Page H544):Post Offices (e.g., naming post offices; creating)--Article I, Section 8, clause 7 provides Congress with the power to establish post offices.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 14, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 142 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 540, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/540
- 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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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
78 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 71 Democrats
7 of 78 cosponsors (9%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Anthony Brindisi (D-NY), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), David Cicilline (D-RI), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Susan Davis (D-CA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Antonio Delgado (D-NY), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and 48 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.