House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Small Business Liberation Act
Official title: To exempt small business concerns from duties imposed pursuant to the national emergency declared on April 2, 2025, by the President.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 12, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 12, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3986.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MORRISON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 101, June 12, 2025, Page H2823):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution states that ``Congress shall have the authority to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States or in any Department of Office thereof.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 345 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3986, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3986
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 18, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 December 18, 2025). 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
26 cosponsors — 26 Democrats
0 of 26 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Judy Chu (D-CA), Herbert Conaway (D-NJ), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Greg Landsman (D-OH), George Latimer (D-NY), Susie Lee (D-NV), Betty McCollum (D-MN), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Johnny Olszewski (D-MD), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Emily Randall (D-WA), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Eric Sorensen (D-IL), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Derek Tran (D-CA), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), James Walkinshaw (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Kelly Morrison.
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- H.R. 6215 (119th) Small Business RELIEF Act
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- H.R. 3821 (119th) ADINA Act
- H.R. 9441 (119th) SAFE Training for OB-GYNs Act
Related bills
- S. 1593 (119th) Small Business Liberation ActIdentical bill
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.