House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
October 7 Remembrance Education Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 6, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 6, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8254.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOTTHEIMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 78, May 6, 2024, Page H2875):Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to develop a curriculum for the study of modern-day antisemitism sur- rounding Hamas' October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against Israel for use in secondary schools, and for other purposes.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 6, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 323 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8254, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8254
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 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 July 21, 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 — 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
2 of 3 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Donald Davis (D-NC), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Michelle Steel (R-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
- H.R. 2593 (118th) National Senior Investor Initiative Act of 2023
- H.R. 3413 (118th) AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2023
- H.R. 603 (118th) HEAL Act
- H.Res. 1537 (118th) Condemning the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and calling for Hamas and its leaders to immediately and unconditionally surrender and to…
- H.R. 3184 (118th) Invest to Protect Act of 2023
- H.Con.Res. 33 (118th) Freedom to Decide Act
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.