House bill · 118th Congress · Public Law 118-217
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14280 South Military Trail in Delray Beach, Florida, as the "Benjamin Berell Ferencz Post Office Building".
Became law on Jan 2, 2025.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedOct 30, 2023
- Committee actionSep 18, 2024
- Passed HouseDec 4, 2024 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateDec 19, 2024 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentDec 27, 2024
- Became lawJan 2, 2025
Latest action: Jan 2, 2025 — Became Public Law No: 118-217.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6116.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6116, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14280 South Military Trail in Delray Beach, Florida, as the “Benjamin Berell Ferencz Post Office Building” on September 24, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on September 18, 2024”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 24, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60741
- CBO publication date
- September 24, 2024
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6116, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6116
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 178, October 30, 2023, Page H5181):Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Post office renamingSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 30, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 184 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6116, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6116
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
293b1f9dd2f44c7d14f7342925a5a95f5be972f110d3e101d222c5edfbda072f
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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
27 cosponsors — 20 Republicans, 7 Democrats
20 of 27 cosponsors (74%) are from the other party.
Aaron Bean (R-FL), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Scott Franklin (R-FL), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Laurel Lee (R-FL), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Brian Mast (R-FL), Cory Mills (R-FL), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Bill Posey (R-FL), John Rutherford (R-FL), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Darren Soto (D-FL), W. Steube (R-FL), Michael Waltz (R-FL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
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Sponsor’s state and district
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