House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 2, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 2, 2023 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 798.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KHANNA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 22, February 2, 2023, Page H682):Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: Labor.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 2, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 91 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 798, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/798
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 15, 2026
- 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 January 15, 2026). 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
29 cosponsors — 29 Democrats
0 of 29 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), John Garamendi (D-CA), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Paul Tonko (D-NY), David Trone (D-MD), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ro Khanna.
- H.R. 5887 (118th) Government Service Delivery Improvement Act
- H.R. 2955 (118th) Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act
- H.R. 797 (118th) Farm System Reform Act of 2023
- H.R. 6270 (118th) State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2023
- H.R. 8760 (118th) Reverend James Lawson, Jr., Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 2764 (118th) Green New Deal for Health 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.