House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Water Access Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 28, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 28, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5793.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. DINGELL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 158, September 28, 2023, Page H4856):The Constitutional authority of Congress to enact legislation provided by Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: Clean waterSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 28, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 184 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5793, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5793
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 19, 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 October 19, 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
8 cosponsors — 8 Democrats
0 of 8 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY), Patrick Ryan (D-NY), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Lauren Underwood (D-IL).
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
- H.R. 9313 (119th) Water Access ActCross-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.