House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Build Now Act
Official title: To optimize the environmental review process for Central Valley Project permits, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Adam Gray D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 11, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 11, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6640.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRAY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 209, December 11, 2025, Page H5810):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 11, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6640, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6640
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
24430a1f3fa893cae600c7e500392beb6f1ef0d2753ba10e8f805a2bb68bb903
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 April 10, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Adam Gray.
- H.R. 3812 (119th) STRIVE Act of 2025
- H.R. 4849 (119th) Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act of 2025
- H.R. 6641 (119th) Central Valley Water Solution Act
- H.R. 2842 (119th) Stop Raising Prices on Food Act
- H.R. 3845 (119th) To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to expand the exemption process under section 7 of that Act with respect to national security…
- H.R. 6639 (119th) Water Agency and Transparency Enhancement Review (WATER) Act
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.