House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
New Way Forward Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 29, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 29, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2374.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GARCIA of Illinois, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 57, March 29, 2023, Page H1659):Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This bill makes changes to immigration enforcement, including ending mandatory detention in certain cases.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 29, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 206 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2374, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2374
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 11, 2024
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 June 11, 2024). 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
33 cosponsors — 33 Democrats
0 of 33 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Cori Bush (D-MO), Greg Casar (D-TX), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James McGovern (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) and 3 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jesús García.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.