House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
DEFIANCE Act of 2025
Official title: To improve rights to relief for individuals affected by non-consensual activities involving intimate digital forgeries, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 21, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 21, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3562.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 86, May 21, 2025, Page H2362):Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 68 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3562, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3562
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 23, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 23, 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 23, 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
65 cosponsors — 32 Republicans, 33 Democrats
32 of 65 cosponsors (49%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), James Baird (R-IN), Mike Bost (R-IL), Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Mike Carey (R-OH), J. Correa (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Donald Davis (D-NC), Monica De La Cruz (R-TX), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Clay Fuller (R-GA), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Josh Harder (D-CA), Erin Houchin (R-IN), David Joyce (R-OH), Thomas Kean (R-NJ) and 35 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
- H.R. 3302 (119th) Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2025
- H.R. 398 (119th) Geothermal Cost-Recovery Authority Act of 2025
- H.R. 7917 (119th) Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act
- H.R. 10063 (119th) Green New Deal for Public Housing Act
- H.R. 10585 (119th) Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice Act
- H.R. 5333 (119th) 9/11 Immigrant Worker Freedom Act
Related bills
- S. 1837 (119th) DEFIANCE Act of 2025Identical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.