House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
FORCE Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 20, 2024
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 20, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7419.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 32, February 20, 2024, Page H687):Article I, Sect. 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Department of Defense to commission a report on the quality of OCONUS base housingSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 20, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 159 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7419, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7419
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f244a9e975fa2939504f081eabcbb151f04be0ea0961eafa85487e20379a1917
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 June 6, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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.