House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
REEF Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 20, 2023
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Apr 20, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2785.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 66, April 20, 2023, Page H1912):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: The Congress shall have Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes. The single subject of this legislation is: To permanently exempt payments made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account from sequestration.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 20, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 316 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2785, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2785
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- 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 September 8, 2026). 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
73 cosponsors — 17 Republicans, 56 Democrats
17 of 73 cosponsors (23%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Mike Bost (R-IL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Troy Carter (D-LA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Angie Craig (D-MN), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Mike Flood (R-NE), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), John Garamendi (D-CA), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Val Hoyle (D-OR) and 43 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.