House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law

John Lewis Civil Rights Fellowship Act of 2022

H.R. 8681Introduced Aug 5, 2022Policy area: International Affairs

Where it went

IntroducedAug 5, 2022
Committee actionSep 14, 2022
Passed HouseSep 29, 2022
Passed Senate—
To the President—
Became law—

Latest action: Oct 11, 2022 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8681.

CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8681, John Lewis Civil Rights Fellowship Act of 2022” on September 22, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 14, 2022”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 22, 2022 ↗
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CBO publication date
September 22, 2022
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 8681, 117th Congress
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Record last updated by Congress.gov
December 5, 2025
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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. WILLIAMS of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 168, No. 132, August 5, 2022, Page H7553):
Article I, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States
Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 5, 2022 ↗
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Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 8681, 117th Congress
Congress.gov API record
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Record last updated by Congress.gov
December 5, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 16, 2026
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list 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

39 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 34 Democrats

5 of 39 cosponsors (13%) are from the other party.

Alma Adams (D-NC), Colin Allred (D-TX), Karen Bass (D-CA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Earl Carter (R-GA), Ed Case (D-HI), Sean Casten (D-IL), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jim Costa (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Mondaire Jones (D-NY), William Keating (D-MA), Andy Levin (D-MI), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Dean Phillips (D-MN), Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and 9 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nikema Williams.

Sponsor’s state and district

Georgia in Congress · GA-5 district

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