House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
SMARTER Act
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a skills-based immigration points system, to focus family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children, to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. David Schweikert R-AZWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 15, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 15, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10400.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHWEIKERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 145, September 15, 2026, Page H5832):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 15, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 10400, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/10400
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 2, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 3, 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 October 2, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David Schweikert.
- H.R. 7971 (119th) Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act
- H.R. 4242 (119th) Innovate Less Lethal to De-Escalate Tax Modernization Act
- H.R. 9772 (119th) Foreign Funding Transparency Act
- H.R. 7972 (119th) Taxpayer Workforce Modernization Act
- H.R. 2653 (119th) Manifest Modernization Act of 2025
- H.R. 10218 (119th) Advancing American Innovation Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 3, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.