House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
District of Columbia Government Title Equality Act
Official title: To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to redesignate the Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia as the Office of the Governor of the District of Columbia and to redesignate the Council of the District of Columbia as the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Eleanor Norton D-DCWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 28, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 28, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5856.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. NORTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 179, October 28, 2025, Page H4560):clause 17 of section 8 of article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 28, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5856, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5856
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 6, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
31e62ac4ba51b58a7b472947fc189bb67463657b1db88981014d1b35dcab57e9
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 April 6, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Eleanor Norton.
- H.R. 189 (119th) Securities and Exchange Commission Real Estate Leasing Authority Revocation Act
- H.R. 2693 (119th) District of Columbia Electronic Transmittal of Legislation Act
- H.R. 51 (119th) Washington, D.C. Admission Act
- H.R. 880 (119th) Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection Act
- H.R. 1888 (119th) Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act of 2025
- H.R. 7441 (119th) Bayard Rustin Stamp Act
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.