House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to meet the needs of homeless children, youth, and families, and honor the assessments and priorities of local communities.
Sponsor: Rep. Michael Lawler R-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 3, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 3, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6403.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LAWLER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 202, December 3, 2025, Page H5027):Artilce 1, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6403, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6403
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 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 September 19, 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
9 cosponsors — 9 Democrats
9 of 9 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Susie Lee (D-NV), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 3352 (119th) HALOS Act of 2025
- H.R. 9436 (119th) Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act of 2026
Related bills
- S. 1667 (119th) Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2025Identical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.