House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
No Payola Act
Official title: To repeal provisions relating to notification to Senate offices regarding legal process on disclosure of Senate data, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez D-NMWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 17, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 17, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6049.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 193, November 17, 2025, Page H4705):Article 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 17, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 9 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6049, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6049
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 5, 2026
- 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 February 5, 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
40 cosponsors — 40 Democrats
0 of 40 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Gabe Amo (D-RI), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Donald Beyer (D-VA), André Carson (D-IN), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Danny Davis (D-IL), Maxine Dexter (D-OR), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Al Green (D-TX), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Rick Larsen (D-WA), John Larson (D-CT), Ted Lieu (D-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Johnny Olszewski (D-MD), Mike Quigley (D-IL) and 10 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez.
- H.R. 4284 (119th) Small Cemetery Conveyance Act
- H.R. 4598 (119th) Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt…
- H.R. 9473 (119th) Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 5774 (119th) Every Child Deserves a Head Start Act of 2025
- H.Con.Res. 56 (119th) Recognizing the significance of equal pay and the disparity in wages paid to Latina women in comparison to White, non-Hispanic men.
- H.Con.Res. 123 (119th) Recognizing the disparity in wages paid to Latinas and the impact of that disparity on women, families, the economy, and the United States.
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.