House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Rural Homeownership Continuity Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Housing Act of 1949 to permit the assumption of loans under the Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Program.
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Costa D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 10, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 10, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5728.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COSTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 168, October 10, 2025, Page H4533):Art. 1, Sec. 8 of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 10, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 39 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5728, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5728
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 9, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 December 9, 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
8 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 5 Democrats
3 of 8 cosponsors (38%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Becca Balint (D-VT), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Andrea Salinas (D-OR), Brad Sherman (D-CA), David Valadao (R-CA).
More from the sponsor
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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.