House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Juvenile Incarceration Reduction Act of 2020
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 16, 2020
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 16, 2020 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7644.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LEWIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 126, July 16, 2020, Page H3091):This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 16, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 224 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7644, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/7644
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 3, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
83c9f73c5edd84ebc28220bb03450b4bd95fb28bd798bbeaf14435ccbdff8154
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 January 3, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. John Lewis.
- H.R. 1957 (116th) Great American Outdoors Act
- H.R. 3151 (116th) Taxpayer First Act
- H.R. 5517 (116th) Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Act
- H.R. 3114 (116th) Every Child Deserves a Family Act
- H.Res. 501 (116th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on Nelson Mandela International Day.
- H.Res. 71 (116th) Observing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
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.