House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 400 North Main Street in Belen, New Mexico, as the "U.S. Senator Dennis Chávez Post Office".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 29, 2022
- Committee actionSep 20, 2022
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 17, 2022 — Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 24 - 16.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8630.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8630, Legislation to Name United States Post Offices” on October 5, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on September 20, 2022”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 5, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58559
- CBO publication date
- October 5, 2022
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8630, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/8630
- 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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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. STANSBURY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 127, July 29, 2022, Page H7540):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 29, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8630, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/8630
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
acb1dbe706cb2a31d363cf7297272c466f5e5b0a9608a69b14138cf7cec47d27
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 committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8630, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Melanie Stansbury.
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.