House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Eviction Right to Counsel Act of 2025
Official title: To provide grants to State and local governments that enact or are fiscally responsible for implementing right to counsel legislation for low-income tenants facing eviction, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Summer Lee D-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 25, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 25, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4761.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 128, July 25, 2025, Page H3656):Article I, Section 8, clause 18 allows Congress to make all laws ``which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution'' any ``other'' powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 25, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 220 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4761, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4761
- 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
11 cosponsors — 11 Democrats
0 of 11 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), André Carson (D-IN), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Summer Lee.
- H.R. 2352 (119th) Abolish Super PACs Act
- H.R. 7623 (119th) Freedom House Ambulance Service Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 9437 (119th) Right to Vote Act
- H.R. 4337 (119th) Congressional Oversight Access Act
- H.R. 8484 (119th) Hazard Pay for Health Care Heroes Act
- H.R. 8303 (119th) Revitalizing America’s Schoolyards Act of 2026
Related bills
- S. 2463 (119th) Eviction Right to Counsel Act of 2025Identical 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.