House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
SERVE Our Communities Act
Official title: To authorize grants for States, and units of local government that take efforts to stop enabling repeat violence, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 198.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. TENNEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H43):Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Creating a new grant program for states and localities that allow judges to impose bailSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 174 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 198, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/198
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 8, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 April 8, 2025). 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
6 cosponsors — 6 Republicans
0 of 6 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Elise Stefanik (R-NY).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.