House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Food Date Labeling Act of 2025
Official title: To establish requirements for quality and discard date phrases that are voluntarily declared on the food label to display calendar dates.
Sponsor: Rep. Chellie Pingree D-MEWhere it went
- IntroducedAug 15, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 13, 2026 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4987.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. PINGREE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 138, August 15, 2025, Page H3699):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 15, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4987, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4987
- 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 — 4 Republicans, 6 Democrats
4 of 10 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Josh Riley (D-NY), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Chellie Pingree.
- H.R. 3077 (119th) Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025
- H.Res. 1027 (119th) Supporting the designation of the "International Year of the Woman Farmer" to recognize and honor the critical role of women in agriculture.
- H.R. 1808 (119th) Keep America’s Waterfronts Working Act of 2025
- H.R. 4047 (119th) Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2025
- H.R. 2576 (119th) Servicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support Act of 2025
- H.R. 3048 (119th) Ocean Regional Opportunity and Innovation Act of 2025
Related bills
- S. 2541 (119th) Food Date Labeling Act of 2025Identical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.