House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedSep 14, 2020
- Committee actionSep 15, 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 the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8235.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of H.R. 8235, Open Courts Act of 2020” on December 8, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As posted on the Website of the Clerk of the House on December 8, 2020”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 8, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56895
- CBO publication date
- December 8, 2020
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8235, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/8235
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 166, No. 158, September 14, 2020, Page H4381):U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8 and Article III, Section 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 14, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 66 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8235, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/8235
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
d005c7bbb8ceac535268d77f1a7a7c530737b1010395d143f9f9a3956bf875fb
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 committee report (as of August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8235, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Henry Johnson.
- H.R. 1423 (116th) FAIR Act
- H.R. 6196 (116th) TM Act of 2020
- H.R. 3991 (116th) Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Improvements to Patent Litigation Act of 2019
- H.R. 1714 (116th) Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act
- H.R. 1945 (116th) Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act
- H.R. 1057 (116th) Supreme Court Ethics Act
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.