House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Restoring Court Authority Over Litigation Act of 2025
Official title: To protect State and Federal courts' primary and inherent authority to regulate and oversee the legal profession by prohibiting Federal agencies from regulating licensed attorneys and law firms engaged in litigation activities, prohibiting opposing parties in legal actions from bringing private rights of action against such attorneys and law firms for their litigation activities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Scott Fitzgerald R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 6, 2025
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- Passed House—
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Latest action: May 6, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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. 3213.
- 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. 75, May 6, 2025, Page H1881):clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 56 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3213, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3213
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 10, 2025
- 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 September 10, 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
3 cosponsors — 3 Republicans
0 of 3 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
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. 1605 (119th) Separation of Powers Restoration 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
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.