House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Official Time Reporting Act
Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report to Congress relating to the use of official time by Federal employees.
Sponsor: Rep. Virginia Foxx R-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 14, 2025
- Committee actionDec 2, 2025
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 2, 2025 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 24 - 19.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5749.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5749, Official Time Reporting Act of 2025” on January 7, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on December 2, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 7, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62006
- CBO publication date
- January 7, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5749, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5749
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 9, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
57c0bd8338845393cb48f7860bb3fa0add422b36428773808c4dba3be14f037a
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. FOXX, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 169, October 14, 2025, Page H4537):Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 118 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5749, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5749
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 9, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
57c0bd8338845393cb48f7860bb3fa0add422b36428773808c4dba3be14f037a
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 committee report (as of January 9, 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
8 cosponsors — 8 Republicans
0 of 8 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Tim Burchett (R-TN), Michael Cloud (R-TX), James Comer (R-KY), Brandon Gill (R-TX), John McGuire (R-VA), Gary Palmer (R-AL), Scott Perry (R-PA), Pete Sessions (R-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Virginia Foxx.
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- H.Res. 1336 (119th) Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules.
- H.Res. 1423 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 139) to make daylight savings time permanent, and for other purposes; providing for…
- H.Res. 1438 (119th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the…
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.