House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Cumberland Street in Rochester, New York, as the "Minister Franklin Florence Memorial Post Office".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 14, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 30, 2025 — Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 15.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 397.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 397, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Cumberland Street in Rochester, New York, as the “Minister Franklin Florence Memorial Post Office”” on May 29, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on April 30, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 29, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61443
- CBO publication date
- May 29, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 397, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/397
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MORELLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 7, January 14, 2025, Page H149):The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution and Amendment XVI of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 163 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 397, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/397
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list 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
25 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 18 Democrats
7 of 25 cosponsors (28%) are from the other party.
Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), George Latimer (D-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), John Mannion (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Josh Riley (D-NY), Patrick Ryan (D-NY), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).
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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.