House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Representation Act
Official title: To prohibit States from dividing documented communities of interest into multiple congressional districts, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedAug 13, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 13, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10089.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GALLAGHER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 132, August 13, 2026, Page H5235):The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the Necessary and Proper Clause under Article 1, Section 8, clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 13, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 152 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 10089, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/10089
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 24, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 24, 2026). 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
1 cosponsor — 1 independent
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.