House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Future Generations Protection Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 20, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 22, 2023 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5606.
- 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. 152, September 20, 2023, Page H4439):Clauses 3 and 18 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the emission of any greenhouse gas in any quantity from any new electric utility steam generating unit, and for other purposes.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 20, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 272 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5606, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5606
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 16, 2025
- 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 16, 2025). 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
23 cosponsors — 23 Democrats
0 of 23 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Cori Bush (D-MO), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).
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.