House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Help for Healing Communities Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 18, 2022
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 19, 2022 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7537.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McBATH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 65, April 18, 2022, Page H4448):Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 18, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 59 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7537, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7537
- 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
22 cosponsors — 22 Democrats
0 of 22 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Anthony Brown (D-MD), André Carson (D-IN), David Cicilline (D-RI), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), James Himes (D-CT), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Mondaire Jones (D-NY), Doris Matsui (D-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Dina Titus (D-NV), Marc Veasey (D-TX), Nikema Williams (D-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lucy McBath.
- H.R. 2377 (117th) Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2022
- H.R. 2119 (117th) Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2021
- H.R. 7310 (117th) Protecting America’s Retirement Security Act of 2022
- H.R. 2525 (117th) REACH Act
- H.R. 943 (117th) Social Determinants for Moms Act
- H.R. 1933 (117th) END ALL Hazing Act
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.