House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Pay Our Capitol Police Act
Official title: Making continuing appropriations for the United States Capitol Police with respect to a Government shutdown.
Sponsor: Rep. Bryan Steil R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 4, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 4, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5924.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEIL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 184, November 4, 2025, Page H4574):Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 4, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 251 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5924, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5924
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5924, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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. Bryan Steil.
- H.R. 7008 (119th) Stop Insider Trading Act
- H.R. 4430 (119th) Expanding WKSI Eligibility Act
- H.R. 8364 (119th) To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize the increase of the retirement age in the United States Capitol Police.
- H.Res. 198 (119th) Providing for the expenses of certain committees of the House of Representatives in the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress.
- H.Res. 308 (119th) Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Fourteenth Congressional District of Florida.
- H.Res. 309 (119th) Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Twenty-eighth Congressional District of Texas.
Related bills
- S. 3073 (119th) Pay Our Capitol Police ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.