House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Porch Pirates Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to extend to matter left for collection by private or commercial interstate carriers the same protections as matter carried throughout the country as interstate or foreign commerce.
Sponsor: Rep. Josh Gottheimer D-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 23, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 23, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6924.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOTTHEIMER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 216, December 23, 2025, Page H6126):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 23, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6924, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6924
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 2, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 2, 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
10 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 5 Democrats
5 of 10 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Steven Horsford (D-NV), Young Kim (R-CA), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Scott Peters (D-CA), John Rutherford (R-FL), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Beth Van Duyne (R-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
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- H.R. 768 (119th) Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons Act
- H.Res. 795 (119th) Condemning the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and calling for Hamas and its leaders to immediately and unconditionally surrender and to…
- H.R. 7100 (119th) Sikh American Anti-Discrimination Act of 2026
- H.R. 2711 (119th) Invest to Protect Act of 2025
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.