House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 13, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 13, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4602.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. BROWNLEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 120, July 13, 2023, Page H3575):Amendment XIV The single subject of this legislation is: Equal RightsSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 13, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 69 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4602, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4602
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 27, 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 27, 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
16 cosponsors — 16 Democrats
0 of 16 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Mark Takano (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Jill Tokuda (D-HI).
More from the sponsor
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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.