House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
RESTORE Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to allow individuals with drug offenses to receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Cohen D-TNWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 9, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 5, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5223.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COHEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 147, September 9, 2025, Page H4165):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 9, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5223, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5223
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 2, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 3, 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 2, 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
12 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 9 Democrats
3 of 12 cosponsors (25%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Don Bacon (R-NE), Everton Blair (D-GA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Donald Davis (D-NC), James McGovern (D-MA), Carol Miller (R-WV), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), John Rutherford (R-FL), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Marc Veasey (D-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen.
- H.R. 144 (119th) Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Transparency Act
- H.R. 1669 (119th) To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program.
- H.R. 9401 (119th) Latonya Reeves Freedom Act of 2026
- H.R. 5451 (119th) Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025
- H.R. 5427 (119th) Billionaires Income Tax Act
- H.R. 1056 (119th) To include the Czech Republic in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the United States as E1…
Related bills
- H.R. 3479 (118th) RESTORE Act of 2023Cross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 3, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.