House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Toxic Free Food Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 25, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 25, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9817.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. DELAURO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 150, September 25, 2024, Page H5831):Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: This legislation would overhaul the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) process for determining the safety of chemicals used in the food supply by requiring the FDA to close the so-called GRAS loophole and make the industry's chemical food additives subject to FDA approval and oversight.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 25, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 488 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9817, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9817
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 14, 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 August 14, 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
8 cosponsors — 8 Democrats
0 of 8 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
André Carson (D-IN), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Jill Tokuda (D-HI).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
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.