House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth Act
Official title: To eliminate employment-based visa caps on abused, abandoned, and neglected children eligible for humanitarian status, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Jimmy Gomez D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 5, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 5, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3763.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOMEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 96, June 5, 2025, Page H2507):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3763, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3763
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 9, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 11, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
56 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 55 Democrats
1 of 56 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Becca Balint (D-VT), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Greg Casar (D-TX), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Danny Davis (D-IL), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Bill Foster (D-IL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), John Larson (D-CT), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM), Mike Levin (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Betty McCollum (D-MN) and 26 more.
More from the sponsor
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- H.Res. 512 (119th) Expressing support for the designation of Sunday, June 15, 2025, as "Father's Day".
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.