House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Liver Illness Visibility, Education, and Research Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 3, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 7, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8601.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. VELAZQUEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 94, June 3, 2024, Page H3582):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to...provide for the...general Welfare of the United States; The single subject of this legislation is: HealthSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 3, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 171 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8601, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8601
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 27, 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 May 27, 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
7 cosponsors — 7 Democrats
0 of 7 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nydia Velázquez.
- H.R. 7105 (118th) WOSB Certification and Opportunity Expansion Act
- H.R. 969 (118th) GAAME Act of 2023
- H.R. 3276 (118th) Healthy Future Students and Earth Pilot Program Act of 2023
- H.R. 6455 (118th) Climate Displaced Persons Act
- H.R. 6567 (118th) Strengthening Capacity for Disaster Resilient Territories Act
- H.R. 8875 (118th) Texture Positive Act of 2024
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.