House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Freedom to Petition the Government Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedOct 29, 2024
- Committee actionNov 20, 2024
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 20, 2024 — Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 21 - 17.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10062.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BIGGS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 160, October 29, 2024, Page H5901):Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: The single subject of this bill is to revise DC Code to clarify that meetings held with federal government officials in the District of Columbia do not constitute doing business in the District of Columbia for purposes of determining whether organizations are required to register with the District of Columbia.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 29, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 375 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 10062, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/10062
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 14, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
08243044a6beb4fe6d49d6f6efc0fb703012917ba8c849a5559021e36dab4399
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 August 14, 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
4 cosponsors — 4 Republicans
0 of 4 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Eric Burlison (R-MO), Elijah Crane (R-AZ), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Andrew Ogles (R-TN).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs.
- H.R. 115 (118th) Midnight Rules Relief Act
- H.R. 6570 (118th) Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act of 2023
- H.R. 7533 (118th) Modernizing Retrospective Regulatory Review Act
- H.R. 79 (118th) WHO Withdrawal Act
- H.R. 2928 (118th) Responsible Borrower Protection Act of 2023
- H.Res. 89 (118th) Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.