House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
GAAME Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 9, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 9, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 969.
- 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. 169, No. 27, February 9, 2023, Page H829):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: EducationSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 9, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 188 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 969, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/969
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 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 December 5, 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
24 cosponsors — 24 Democrats
0 of 24 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Brian Higgins (D-NY), William Keating (D-MA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Doris Matsui (D-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Deborah Ross (D-NC), David Scott (D-GA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.