House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the nature of judicial review of agency interpretations of statutory and regulatory provisions.
Sponsor: Rep. Scott Fitzgerald R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 26, 2025
- Committee actionMay 21, 2025
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 21, 2025 — Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 15 - 12.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1605.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1605, SOPRA” on July 9, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 21, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 9, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61538
- CBO publication date
- July 9, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1605, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1605
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 15, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7526b52f3d96f9b693caba82896e191dc2b32289517a307a39c95f950e835b2a
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FITZGERALD, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 38, February 26, 2025, Page H879):clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 26, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 56 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1605, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1605
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 15, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7526b52f3d96f9b693caba82896e191dc2b32289517a307a39c95f950e835b2a
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 committee report (as of September 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1605, last updated September 15, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
3 cosponsors — 3 Republicans
0 of 3 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Ben Cline (R-VA), Robert Onder (R-MO), Thomas Tiffany (R-WI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Scott Fitzgerald.
- H.R. 2189 (119th) To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 6260 (119th) Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025
- H.R. 6048 (119th) NDO Fairness Act of 2025
- H.R. 5877 (119th) Combatting Money Laundering in Cyber Crime Act of 2025
- H.R. 6570 (119th) Merger Agreement Approvals Clarity and Predictability Act
- H.R. 3379 (119th) HUMPS Act of 2025
Related bills
- S. 33 (119th) SOPRARelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.