House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Equal Protection for American Workers Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 7, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 7, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7582.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BURGESS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 41, March 7, 2024, Page H1034):Article I, Section VIII The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from granting a work authorization to an alien found to have been unlawfully present in the United StatesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 7, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 219 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7582, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7582
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 9, 2024
- 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 July 9, 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
No cosponsors.
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.