House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
HEIRS Act of 2025
Official title: To establish a grant program for States that adopt the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 26, 2025
- Committee actionJun 30, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 1, 2026 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 693.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1640.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1640, HEIRS Act of 2025” on September 17, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on September 1, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 17, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62774
- CBO publication date
- September 17, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1640, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1640
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 119-793 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on September 1, 2026.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 1, 2026 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/793
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1640, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1640
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 38, February 26, 2025, Page H880):Aticle I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 26, 2025 ↗
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- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1640, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1640
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
255b6e5dea2eb3f9c695612063911ff46a31b8a37a8d5fa65d0170f80ccd1fe8
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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
10 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 9 Democrats
1 of 10 cosponsors (10%) are from the other party.
Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 4917 (119th) Expanding the VOTE Act
- H.R. 4910 (119th) Sustaining Our Democracy Act
- H.J.Res. 216 (119th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment…
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.