House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced

Housing not Handcuffs Act of 2025

H.R. 4182Introduced Jun 26, 2025Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Official title: To prohibit the criminalization of homelessness on Federal public lands.

Where it went

IntroducedJun 26, 2025
Committee action—
Passed House—
Passed Senate—
To the President—
Became law—

Latest action: Jun 26, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Natural Resources, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4182.

Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JAYAPAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 110, June 26, 2025, Page H3012):
This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 26, 2025 ↗
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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

29 cosponsors — 29 Democrats

0 of 29 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.

Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Becca Balint (D-VT), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), André Carson (D-IN), Greg Casar (D-TX), Judy Chu (D-CA), Danny Davis (D-IL), Maxine Dexter (D-OR), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Jesús García (D-IL), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Summer Lee (D-PA), James McGovern (D-MA), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).

More from the sponsor

Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Sponsor’s state and district

Washington in Congress · WA-7 district

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