House bill · 117th Congress · Public Law 117-307
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6000 South Florida Avenue in Lakeland, Florida, as the "U.S. Marine Corporal Ronald R. Payne Jr. Post Office".
Became law on Dec 27, 2022.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 29, 2022
- Committee actionNov 17, 2022
- Passed HouseDec 12, 2022 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateDec 19, 2022 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentDec 23, 2022
- Became lawDec 27, 2022
Latest action: Dec 27, 2022 — Became Public Law No: 117-307.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7638.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MOORE of Alabama, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 65, April 18, 2022, Page H4448):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 18, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 72 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7638, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/7638
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 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 April 7, 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
26 cosponsors — 15 Republicans, 11 Democrats
11 of 26 cosponsors (42%) are from the other party.
Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Val Demings (D-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Al Lawson (D-FL), Brian Mast (R-FL), Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), Bill Posey (R-FL), John Rutherford (R-FL), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Darren Soto (D-FL), W. Steube (R-FL), Michael Waltz (R-FL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
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.