House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedSep 6, 2022
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 6, 2022 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8778.
- 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. 142, September 6, 2022, Page H7738):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 6, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8778, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/8778
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 15, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3fa50008a5d872089ca8a887bd7eaab4e13a0e84027f8045f234c08b63e26c85
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.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8778, last updated May 15, 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
10 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 9 Democrats
1 of 10 cosponsors (10%) are from the other party.
Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Al Green (D-TX), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), William Timmons (R-SC), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nikema Williams.
- H.R. 5577 (117th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3900 Crown Road Southwest in Atlanta, Georgia, as the "John R.…
- H.R. 8681 (117th) John Lewis Civil Rights Fellowship Act of 2022
- H.R. 5547 (117th) CEDS Act
- H.Res. 1382 (117th) Condemning the atrocities that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1906, in which White supremacist mobs brutalized, terrorized, and killed…
- H.R. 8770 (117th) Expanding the VOTE Act
- H.R. 5606 (117th) Return Home to Housing Act
Related bills
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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.