House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJun 12, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 12, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4046.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUIZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 102, June 12, 2023, Page H2811):Article I, section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the United States Constitution, to provide for the general welfare and make all laws necessary and proper to carry out the powers of Congress. The single subject of this legislation is: This bill revises labor provisions for protecting child workers, including those employed in agriculture, and increases the civil penalties for violations of such provisions and imposes new criminal penalties for violations resulting in the death or serious injury or illness of a child worker.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 522 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4046, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4046
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
e191c5d73f45ab5c29085de8b55eb6f4b8ac91ad00e1146495e4674635ba3f8a
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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4046, last updated July 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 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
45 cosponsors — 45 Democrats
0 of 45 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Julia Brownley (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), James McGovern (D-MA), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) and 15 more.
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
- S. 5662 (119th) CARE Act of 2026Cross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.