House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Trailer Safety Improvement Act
Official title: To amend title 23, United States Code, to include education on trailer safety in State highway safety programs.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 4, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 141.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BURCHETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H41):Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title 23, United States Code, to include education on trailer safety in State highway safety programs.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 175 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 141, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/141
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 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 September 19, 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
4 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 4 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Earl Carter (R-GA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Rudy Yakym (R-IN).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.