House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
BEACH Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 1, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 12, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7203.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 19, February 1, 2024, Page H389):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to grants for beach monitoring.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 1, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 164 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7203, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7203
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 16, 2024
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
43151b0f08a3d0b2551ba46d30045254859116ff9ce84dab896e31700bd0d318
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 16, 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
26 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 22 Democrats
22 of 26 cosponsors (85%) are from the other party.
Gabe Amo (D-RI), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Mike Levin (D-CA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Katie Porter (D-CA), David Rouzer (R-NC), John Rutherford (R-FL), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Emilia Sykes (D-OH), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), David Trone (D-MD).
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.