House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Credit Reporting Accuracy After a Legal Name Change Act of 2022
Sponsor: Rep. Ayanna Pressley D-MAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 21, 2022
- Committee actionJul 27, 2022
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 27, 2022 — Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 23.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8478.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PRESSLEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 121, July 21, 2022, Page H7067):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 21, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8478, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/8478
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 15, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
331b2d7b658e6062764964dd6125aa5461a193fefd02dc8858d28293571083ac
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 May 15, 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
5 cosponsors — 5 Democrats
0 of 5 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Marie Newman (D-IL), Katie Porter (D-CA), Ritchie Torres (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
- H.R. 5703 (117th) Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act
- H.R. 3948 (117th) GSIB Act of 2021
- H.R. 7894 (117th) Affordability is Access Act
- H.R. 262 (117th) Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act
- H.Res. 100 (117th) Calling on the President of the United States to take executive action to broadly cancel Federal student loan debt.
- H.R. 666 (117th) Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2021
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.