House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
READY Accounts Act
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for Residential Emergency Asset-accumulation Deferred Taxation Yield (READY) accounts.
Sponsor: Rep. Laurel Lee R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 15, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 15, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 440.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LEE of Florida, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 8, January 15, 2025, Page H186):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 15, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 440, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/440
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 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
10 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 10 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.
Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Scott Franklin (R-FL), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), April McClain Delaney (D-MD), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Jimmy Patronis (R-FL), John Rutherford (R-FL), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ).
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
- S. 1940 (119th) READY Accounts ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.