House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Fair Repair Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 23, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 31, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8544.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MORELLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 90, May 23, 2024, Page H3525):This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Right to Repair.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 23, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 193 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8544, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8544
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 16, 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 January 16, 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
4 cosponsors — 4 Democrats
0 of 4 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Ed Case (D-HI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Marie Perez (D-WA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joseph Morelle.
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- H.R. 3106 (118th) Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act
- H.R. 3867 (118th) Spotted Lanternfly Research and Development 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.