House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2021
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 24, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 1, 2022 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4137.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRIJALVA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 110, June 24, 2021, Page H3134):U.S. Const. art. I, Sec. Sec. 1 and 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 24, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 38 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4137, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/4137
- 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
38 cosponsors — 38 Democrats
0 of 38 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), André Carson (D-IN), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Bill Foster (D-IL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Jesús García (D-IL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Mondaire Jones (D-NY), Kaiali'i Kahele (D-HI), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), William Keating (D-MA), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), James McGovern (D-MA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Marie Newman (D-IL), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Bobby Rush (D-IL) and 8 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Raúl Grijalva.
- H.R. 4881 (117th) Old Pascua Community Land Acquisition Act
- H.R. 4176 (117th) LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act
- H.R. 8393 (117th) Puerto Rico Status Act
- H.R. 5221 (117th) Urban Indian Health Confer Act
- H.R. 7025 (117th) Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022
- H.R. 5715 (117th) To reauthorize the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Trust Fund, and for other purposes.
Related bills
- H.R. 8971 (119th) Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2026Cross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.