House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Heirs Education and Investment to Resolve Succession of Property Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 1, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 3, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8198.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 75, May 1, 2024, Page H2829):U.S. Const. art. 1, Sec. 8, cls. 1, 3, 18 The single subject of this legislation is: Heirs' PropertySource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 1, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 100 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8198, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8198
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 8, 2025
- 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 August 8, 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
3 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
1 of 3 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Donald Davis (D-NC), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Austin Scott (R-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Sanford Bishop.
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- H.R. 9647 (118th) President Jimmy Carter Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 333 (118th) Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act
- H.Con.Res. 103 (118th) Authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for the lying in honor of the remains of Ralph Puckett, Jr., the last Medal of Honor…
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.