House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Fossil Free Finance Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 14, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
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Latest action: Sep 14, 2021 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5253.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JONES, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 158, September 14, 2021, Page H4524):Article I, Section 8, of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 14, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5253, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/5253
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 3, 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 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
20 cosponsors — 20 Democrats
0 of 20 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Cori Bush (D-MO), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Jesús García (D-IL), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Marie Newman (D-IL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Mark Takano (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
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.