House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
CCP Wrongful Death Accountability Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 15, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 15, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4142.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SANTOS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 105, June 15, 2023, Page H2959):US Constitution, Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To provide for a cause of action for any United States national who lost a relative on due to COVID-19.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 15, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 183 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4142, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4142
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 24, 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 July 24, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. George Santos.
- H.R. 3757 (118th) Defund the CCP On Campus Act of 2023
- H.R. 4205 (118th) Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2023
- H.Con.Res. 45 (118th) The Hands Off Our Election Resolution of 2023
- H.Con.Res. 48 (118th) Condemning the Chinese Communist Party for the Wuhan Lab "leak" causing the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
- H.Con.Res. 50 (118th) Expressing congressional disapproval of the actions taken by Dictator President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador for dissolving the National…
- H.Con.Res. 51 (118th) Agreeing that the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest threat to freedom and to the free world.
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.