House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Small Business Expense Protection Act of 2020
Sponsor: Rep. George Holding R-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 12, 2020
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 12, 2020 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6821.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HOLDING, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 89, May 12, 2020, Page H1993):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: ''To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 12, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 267 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6821, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/6821
- 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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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 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
73 cosponsors — 72 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 73 cosponsors (1%) are from the other party.
Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Jim Banks (R-IN), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Ted Budd (R-NC), Bradley Byrne (R-AL), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Tom Cole (R-OK), James Comer (R-KY), Eric Crawford (R-AR), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Ron Estes (R-KS), A. Ferguson (R-GA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Russ Fulcher (R-ID), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Mike Garcia (R-CA), Bob Gibbs (R-OH), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Mark Green (R-TN), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Michael Guest (R-MS), Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Clay Higgins (R-LA) and 43 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. George Holding.
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- H.R. 8538 (116th) To allow certain governmental pension plans to include firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 536 (116th) Hurricane Florence Tax Relief Act
- H.J.Res. 29 (116th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms an individual may serve as a Member of…
- H.R. 7775 (116th) To amend title 28, United States Code, to redefine the eastern and middle judicial districts of North Carolina.
- H.R. 1902 (116th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow officers and employees of the Department of the Treasury to provide to taxpayers…
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.