House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
National Council on African American History and Culture Act of 2023
Sponsor: Rep. Kweisi Mfume D-MDWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 1, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 1, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 727.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MFUME, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 21, February 1, 2023, Page H630):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1; Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: HumanitiesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 1, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 117 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 727, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/727
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b76fdf4f474e377b0e3becbbc66ad5889782ba604d630e175c0175fa8a0c928d
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
67 cosponsors — 67 Democrats
0 of 67 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Colin Allred (D-TX), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Cori Bush (D-MO), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Troy Carter (D-LA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Danny Davis (D-IL), Donald Davis (D-NC), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Al Green (D-TX), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and 37 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Kweisi Mfume.
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- H.R. 8014 (118th) Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
- H.R. 4122 (118th) Henrietta Lacks Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.Res. 42 (118th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, as an entity of the United States Postal…
- H.R. 563 (118th) Identifying Mass Shooters Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.