House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Aaron Salter, Jr., Responsible Body Armor Possession Act
Sponsor: Rep. Grace Meng D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 17, 2022
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 1, 2022 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8147.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MENG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 104, June 17, 2022, Page H5685):Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution [page Hl0170]Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 17, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 57 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8147, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/8147
- 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
23 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 22 Democrats
1 of 23 cosponsors (4%) are from the other party.
Shontel Brown (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Val Demings (D-FL), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Chris Jacobs (R-NY), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), James Langevin (D-RI), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Joseph Morelle (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Dina Titus (D-NV), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Grace Meng.
- H.R. 3525 (117th) Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act
- H.R. 1158 (117th) Refugee Sanitation Facility Safety Act of 2021
- H.R. 826 (117th) Divided Families Reunification Act
- H.R. 1843 (117th) COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act
- H.Res. 151 (117th) Condemning all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19.
- H.R. 1585 (117th) Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act
Related bills
- S. 4553 (119th) Aaron Salter, Jr., Responsible Body Armor Possession ActCross-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.