House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Matthew Lawrence Perna Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide protections for nonviolent political protesters, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Marjorie Greene R-GAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 9, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 9, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 277.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. GREENE of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 5, January 9, 2025, Page H92):Article I, Section 8, United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 9, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 48 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 277, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/277
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 6, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 February 6, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Greene.
- H.R. 3492 (119th) Protect Children’s Innocence Act
- H.R. 276 (119th) Gulf of America Act
- H.R. 275 (119th) Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025
- H.R. 1123 (119th) To abolish the United States Agency for International Development, and for other purposes.
- H.Res. 24 (119th) Expunging the December 18, 2019, impeachment of President Donald John Trump.
- H.Res. 25 (119th) Expunging the January 13, 2021, impeachment of President Donald John Trump.
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.