House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
PAAF Act
Official title: To provide for automatic acquisition of United States citizenship for certain internationally adopted individuals, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 18, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 18, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5492.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 153, September 18, 2025, Page H4457):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 18, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5492, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5492
- 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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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
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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
29 cosponsors — 15 Republicans, 14 Democrats
15 of 29 cosponsors (52%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), James Baird (R-IN), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Herbert Conaway (D-NJ), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Brad Finstad (R-MN), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Scott Franklin (R-FL), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), J. Hill (R-AR), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Blake Moore (R-UT), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Bradley Schneider (D-IL), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Jill Tokuda (D-HI).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith.
Related bills
- S. 2923 (119th) PAAF ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.