House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2025
Official title: To reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Young Kim R-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 7, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5959.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. KIM, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 187, November 7, 2025, Page H4586):Article I, Section 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 21 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5959, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5959
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 16, 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 16, 2025). 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
11 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 11 cosponsors (27%) are from the other party.
Ami Bera (D-CA), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Blake Moore (R-UT), James Moylan (R-GU), Josh Riley (D-NY), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Young Kim.
- H.R. 7037 (119th) Developing Overseas Mineral Investments and New Allied Networks for Critical Energies Act
- H.R. 2635 (119th) Uyghur Policy Act of 2025
- H.R. 3350 (119th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 340 East 1st Street in Tustin, California, as the "Ursula Ellen…
- H.R. 1479 (119th) Hotel Fees Transparency Act of 2025
- H.R. 4233 (119th) ARMOR Act
- H.R. 2201 (119th) Improving VA Training for Military Sexual Trauma Claims 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.