House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
HELPER Act of 2021
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 13, 2021
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- Passed House—
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Latest action: May 13, 2021 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3172.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUTHERFORD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 83, May 13, 2021, Page H2315):Article I, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 13, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3172, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3172
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 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
88 cosponsors — 31 Republicans, 57 Democrats
57 of 88 cosponsors (65%) are from the other party.
Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Steve Chabot (R-OH), J. Correa (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Eric Crawford (R-AR), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Jason Crow (D-CO), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Jake Ellzey (R-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Josh Harder (D-CA), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Bill Johnson (R-OH), Henry Johnson (D-GA) and 58 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.