House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
BARK Act of 2025
Official title: To provide protections for good faith donations of pet food and supplies.
Sponsor: Rep. Jamie Raskin D-MDWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 4, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 4, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3732.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RASKIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 95, June 4, 2025, Page H2470):Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 4, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 45 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3732, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3732
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 5, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
882911e51e2ccbc69c3be4c8e700976ec4c97b8b21549c3923bc756b4516731a
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 May 5, 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
16 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 8 Democrats
8 of 16 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Young Kim (R-CA), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Derek Schmidt (R-KS), Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Jefferson Shreve (R-IN), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Dina Titus (D-NV), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jamie Raskin.
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- H.R. 9600 (119th) Common Sense 250 Act of 2026
- H.R. 8831 (119th) Protecting Our Democracy Act
- H.R. 8914 (119th) No Taxpayer-Funded Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2026
- H.J.Res. 115 (119th) Terminating the emergency determined by the President on August 11, 2025, in the Executive Order titled "Declaring a crime emergency in…
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.