House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 28, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 26, 2023 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5085.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McGOVERN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 131, July 28, 2023, Page H4152):Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: Pesticide safety.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 28, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 116 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5085, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5085
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 9, 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 January 9, 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
22 cosponsors — 22 Democrats
0 of 22 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Joseph Morelle (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), David Trone (D-MD), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA).
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.