House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
FORWARD Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 12, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 15, 2023 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6731.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHWEIKERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 204, December 12, 2023, Page H6860):Article I Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To support endemic fungal disease research, incentivize fungal vaccine development, discover new antifungal therapies and diagnostics, and for other purposesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 12, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 220 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6731, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6731
- 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
8 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 8 cosponsors (25%) are from the other party.
Michael Burgess (R-TX), Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Vince Fong (R-CA), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Greg Stanton (D-AZ), David Valadao (R-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David Schweikert.
- H.R. 1607 (118th) To clarify jurisdiction with respect to certain Bureau of Reclamation pumped storage development, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 8261 (118th) Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act
- H.R. 8293 (118th) American Donor Privacy and Foreign Funding Transparency Act
- H.R. 6227 (118th) Adding Coccidioidomycosis to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act of 2023
- H.R. 5932 (118th) Fortify Israel Act
- H.R. 3991 (118th) Small Business Paperwork Savings Act
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.