House bill · 118th Congress · Public Law 118-249
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 Main Street in Brawley, California, as the "Walter Francis Ulloa Memorial Post Office Building".
Became law on Jan 4, 2025.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 5, 2024
- Committee actionSep 18, 2024
- Passed HouseDec 4, 2024 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateDec 19, 2024 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentDec 27, 2024
- Became lawJan 4, 2025
Latest action: Jan 4, 2025 — Became Public Law No: 118-249.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8641.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8641, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 Main Street in Brawley, California, as the “Walter Francis Ulloa Memorial Post Office Building” on September 24, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on September 18, 2024”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 24, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60748
- CBO publication date
- September 24, 2024
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8641, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8641
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUIZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 96, June 5, 2024, Page H3675):Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, that the United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of establishing or regulating post offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: This bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 Main Street in Brawley, California, as the ``Walter Francis Ulloa Memorial Post Office Building''.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 5, 2024 ↗
Evidence
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 496 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8641, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8641
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
51 cosponsors — 11 Republicans, 39 Democrats, 1 independent
12 of 51 cosponsors (24%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), J. Correa (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), John Duarte (R-CA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Vince Fong (R-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Mike Garcia (R-CA), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Josh Harder (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Kevin Kiley (I-CA), Young Kim (R-CA), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA) and 21 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.