House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Worker Rights and Support Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 28, 2024
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
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Latest action: Jun 28, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8911.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 109, June 28, 2024, Page H4445):Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require employers to allow employees to take meal, rest, restroom, and medical breaks, and for other purposes.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 28, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 257 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8911, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8911
- 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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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
37 cosponsors — 37 Democrats
0 of 37 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Cori Bush (D-MO), Troy Carter (D-LA), Greg Casar (D-TX), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Jesús García (D-IL), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Mark Takano (D-CA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and 7 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman.
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- H.R. 8191 (118th) CROWN Act of 2024
- H.R. 5976 (118th) Youth Mental Health Research Act
- H.R. 3548 (118th) Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act
- H.R. 4817 (118th) SHADE Act
Related bills
- H.R. 9008 (119th) Worker Rights and Support ActCross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.