House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2025
Official title: To secure the rights of public employees to organize, act concertedly, and bargain collectively, which safeguard the public interest and promote the free and unobstructed flow of commerce, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Donald Norcross D-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 8, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 8, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2736.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NORCROSS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 63, April 8, 2025, Page H1508):Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 8, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 22 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2736, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2736
- 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
192 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 186 Democrats
6 of 192 cosponsors (3%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Gabe Amo (D-RI), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Don Bacon (R-NE), Becca Balint (D-VT), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Ami Bera (D-CA), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Troy Carter (D-LA), Greg Casar (D-TX), Ed Case (D-HI), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN) and 162 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Donald Norcross.
- H.R. 5408 (119th) Faster Labor Contracts Act
- H.Res. 1140 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5408) to accelerate workplace time-to-contract under the National Labor Relations Act.
- H.R. 2692 (119th) No Tax Breaks for Union Busting (NTBUB) Act
- H.R. 5206 (119th) Empowering Striking Workers Act of 2025
- H.R. 1627 (119th) TREATS Act
- H.R. 5653 (119th) Trust Through Transparency Act of 2025
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.