House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Uterine Cancer Study Act of 2025
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report on the relationship between hair straighteners and uterine cancer, particularly among women of color.
Sponsor: Rep. Yvette Clarke D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 15, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 15, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4396.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. CLARKE of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 121, July 15, 2025, Page H3316):Title I Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 15, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 17 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4396, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4396
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 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
38 cosponsors — 38 Democrats
0 of 38 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Troy Carter (D-LA), Donald Davis (D-NC), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Al Green (D-TX), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Summer Lee (D-PA), John Mannion (D-NY), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Luz Rivas (D-CA), Andrea Salinas (D-OR), David Scott (D-GA), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and 8 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Yvette Clarke.
- H.R. 4395 (119th) Stephanie Tubbs Jones Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act of 2025
- H.Res. 1018 (119th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that protecting and advancing the rights of women and girls in the Republic of Haiti…
- H.R. 8811 (119th) Moms Matter Act
- H.R. 8098 (119th) To direct the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to obtain a statue of Shirley Chisholm for placement in the United States Capitol.
- H.R. 5511 (119th) Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2025
- H.R. 6356 (119th) Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act of 2025
Related bills
- S. 2285 (119th) Uterine Cancer Study Act of 2025Related 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.