House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Spotted Lanternfly Research and Development Act
Official title: To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to include spotted lanternfly control research and development as high-priority research and extension initiative, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Joseph Morelle D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 23, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4708.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MORELLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 126, July 23, 2025, Page H3649):This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 134 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4708, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4708
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 17, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 17, 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
40 cosponsors — 16 Republicans, 24 Democrats
16 of 40 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Gabe Amo (D-RI), Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), André Carson (D-IN), Jim Costa (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Summer Lee (D-PA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Grace Meng (D-NY), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Josh Riley (D-NY), Patrick Ryan (D-NY), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) and 10 more.
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Related bills
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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.