House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Preserving Great Americans’ Legacies Act of 2025
Official title: To prohibit the Secretary of the Navy from changing the names of certain naval vessels.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 12, 2025
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Latest action: Jun 12, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3993.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PETERS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 101, June 12, 2025, Page H2823):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3993, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3993
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 23, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
44e2bd64bdd601f87e109392b0a81f0b0e02458439e31907cd351da9a60ebe2b
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 July 23, 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
17 cosponsors — 17 Democrats
0 of 17 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Troy Carter (D-LA), J. Correa (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Mike Levin (D-CA), Sam Liccardo (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Darren Soto (D-FL), Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), Juan Vargas (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
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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.