House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
REACH Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 17, 2019
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Jan 17, 2019 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 662.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. FUDGE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 10, January 17, 2019, Page H720):Article I, Section 8, clause 3 provides Congress with the power to ``regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 17, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 168 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 662, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/662
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 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 July 21, 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
73 cosponsors — 11 Republicans, 62 Democrats
11 of 73 cosponsors (15%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Colin Allred (D-TX), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jim Costa (D-CA), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Val Demings (D-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Abby Finkenauer (D-IA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Charles Fleischmann (R-TN), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Al Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Brian Higgins (D-NY) and 43 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.