House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Helping Our Heroes Act
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a charitable deduction for the service of volunteer firefighters and emergency medical and rescue personnel.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 4, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 4, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5905.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BRESNAHAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 184, November 4, 2025, Page H4573):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 4, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5905, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5905
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 21, 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 August 21, 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
6 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 6 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Josh Harder (D-CA), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Derek Tran (D-CA), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Robert Bresnahan.
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- H.R. 6075 (119th) Water Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2025
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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.