House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Violet’s Law
Official title: To amend the Animal Welfare Act to allow for the adoption or non-laboratory placement of certain animals used in Federal research, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Nancy Mace R-SCWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 7, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3246.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MACE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 76, May 7, 2025, Page H1911):Article I, Section 8 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 40 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3246, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3246
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1b349c6714365f37b225fe3098de9f7f3179eed2dfd88859d900d0970f0ac1b4
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 19, 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
54 cosponsors — 14 Republicans, 40 Democrats
40 of 54 cosponsors (74%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), André Carson (D-IN), Troy Carter (D-LA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Donald Davis (D-NC), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jesús García (D-IL), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Josh Harder (D-CA), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Jared Huffman (D-CA), John James (R-MI), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Young Kim (R-CA), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Susie Lee (D-NV), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Dave Min (D-CA) and 24 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace.
- H.R. 5235 (119th) Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025
- H.R. 30 (119th) Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
- H.R. 872 (119th) Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act of 2025
- H.R. 2985 (119th) Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act
- H.R. 5000 (119th) Cybersecurity Hiring Modernization Act
- H.R. 3455 (119th) Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.