House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
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Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 17, 2019
- Committee actionSep 9, 2020
- Passed HouseDec 8, 2020 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 9, 2020 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 683.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. VELAZQUEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 10, January 17, 2019, Page H720):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 The Congress shall have 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
- 167 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 683, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/683
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- 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 September 8, 2026). 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
33 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 26 Democrats
7 of 33 cosponsors (21%) are from the other party.
Karen Bass (D-CA), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rob Bishop (R-UT), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Darren Soto (D-FL), Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and 3 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nydia Velázquez.
- H.R. 277 (116th) ASCEND Act of 2019
- H.R. 5078 (116th) Prison to Proprietorship Act
- H.R. 226 (116th) Clarity on Small Business Participation in Category Management Act of 2019
- H.R. 227 (116th) Incentivizing Fairness in Subcontracting Act
- H.R. 2854 (116th) Protect Our Refuges Act of 2019
- H.R. 4299 (116th) Data Preservation Act of 2020
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.