House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Equal COLA Act
Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to achieve parity between the cost-of-living adjustment with respect to an annuity under the Federal Employees Retirement System and an annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Gerald Connolly D-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 16, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 16, 2025 — ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Walkinshaw asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 491, a bill originally introduced by Representative Connolly, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 491.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CONNOLLY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 9, January 16, 2025, Page H222):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 491, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/491
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 7, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 10, 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 October 7, 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
90 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 87 Democrats
3 of 90 cosponsors (3%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Gabe Amo (D-RI), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Becca Balint (D-VT), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Troy Carter (D-LA), Greg Casar (D-TX), Sean Casten (D-IL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Herbert Conaway (D-NJ), Angie Craig (D-MN), Danny Davis (D-IL), Donald Davis (D-NC), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Maxwell Frost (D-FL) and 60 more.
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Related bills
- S. 624 (119th) Equal COLA ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 10, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.