House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2025
Official title: To provide downpayment assistance to first-generation homebuyers to address multigenerational inequities in access to homeownership and to narrow and ultimately close the racial homeownership gap in the United States, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Maxine Waters D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 23, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4069.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. WATERS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 107, June 23, 2025, Page H2889):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 and Clause 18 (relating to the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the powers vested in Congress)Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- Statement length
- 153 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4069, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4069
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 10, 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
28 cosponsors — 28 Democrats
0 of 28 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Everton Blair (D-GA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Al Green (D-TX), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), James McGovern (D-MA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Emily Randall (D-WA), Emilia Sykes (D-OH), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Nikema Williams (D-GA), Frederica Wilson (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Maxine Waters.
- H.R. 3422 (119th) Promoting Opportunities for Non-Traditional Capital Formation Act
- H.R. 1764 (119th) Aligning SEC Regulations for the World Bank’s International Development Association Act
- H.R. 4544 (119th) American Access to Banking Act
- H.Res. 259 (119th) Of inquiry requesting the President to provide certain documents in the President's possession to the House of Representatives relating to…
- H.R. 10325 (119th) To increase the mandatory contribution amount of Federal Home Loan Banks to the Affordable Housing Program, and for other purposes.
- H.Res. 1106 (119th) Honoring the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.