House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
WIC Benefits Protection Act
Official title: To amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require mandatory funding for the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Robert Scott D-VAWhere 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 Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5740.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 168, October 10, 2025, Page H4533):Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 10, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 62 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5740, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5740
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 2, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 September 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
99 cosponsors — 99 Democrats
0 of 99 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Gabe Amo (D-RI), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Troy Carter (D-LA), Greg Casar (D-TX), Sean Casten (D-IL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jim Costa (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Laura Friedman (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA) and 69 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Robert Scott.
- H.R. 6893 (119th) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act
- H.Res. 435 (119th) Expressing the profound sorrow of the House of Representatives on the death of the Honorable Gerald E. Connolly.
- H.Res. 237 (119th) Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Education to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of…
- H.R. 20 (119th) Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- H.R. 2743 (119th) Raise the Wage Act of 2025
- H.R. 1954 (119th) Do No Harm Act
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.