House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
MONARCH Act of 2021
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 17, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 29, 2021 — Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1983.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PANETTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 50, March 17, 2021, Page H1501):Article I, Section 8, clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 17, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1983, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/1983
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7430a8f1a7400077926a20e3afbb2b3fdf83b03e12634c3ba10c90f702997274
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
31 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 30 Democrats
1 of 31 cosponsors (3%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Karen Bass (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), James Cooper (D-TN), Jim Costa (D-CA), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), James Himes (D-CT), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Andy Levin (D-MI), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ), Scott Peters (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Mark Takano (D-CA) and 1 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jimmy Panetta.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.