House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Silver Shield Act of 2025
Official title: To impose requirements with respect to monitoring the operational use of sales, exports, and transfers of defense articles and services, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Sara Jacobs D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 17, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4502.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JACOBS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 123, July 17, 2025, Page H3476):Section 8 of Article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 42 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4502, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4502
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 August 4, 2026). 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
11 cosponsors — 11 Democrats
0 of 11 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), William Keating (D-MA), Sam Liccardo (D-CA), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), James McGovern (D-MA), Dave Min (D-CA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Emily Randall (D-WA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Sara Jacobs.
- H.R. 6196 (119th) Locally Led Development and Humanitarian Response Act
- H.R. 7052 (119th) Conflict Prevention Act
- H.R. 3916 (119th) My Body, My Data Act of 2025
- H.Con.Res. 23 (119th) Supporting the goals and ideals of International Transgender Day of Visibility.
- H.R. 1196 (119th) Protect U.S. National Security Act
- H.Con.Res. 82 (119th) Supporting the goals and ideals of International Transgender Day of Visibility.
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.