House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Farewell to Foam Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 7, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 8, 2023 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6654.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DOGGETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 202, December 7, 2023, Pages H6740-H6741):Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This bill is to prohibit the sale and distribution of expanded polystyrene food service ware, expanded polystyrene loose fill, and expanded polystyrene coolers, and for other purposes.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 7, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 296 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6654, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6654
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 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 December 5, 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
82 cosponsors — 82 Democrats
0 of 82 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Becca Balint (D-VT), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Julia Brownley (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Troy Carter (D-LA), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Greg Casar (D-TX), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), John Garamendi (D-CA), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Al Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and 52 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Doggett.
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- H.R. 34 (118th) Assuring Medicare’s Promise Act of 2023
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.