House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Fair Legal Access Grants Act
Official title: To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to award grants for providing legal resources for petitioners seeking extreme risk protection orders, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Judy Chu D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 21, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 21, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7171.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. CHU, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 14, January 21, 2026, Page H1172):Clause 1 of Article 1, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 21, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 66 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7171, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7171
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 2, 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.
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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
8 cosponsors — 8 Democrats
0 of 8 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu.
- H.R. 754 (119th) Investing in Main Street Act of 2025
- H.R. 7463 (119th) Foster Youth Postsecondary Education Access and Success Act
- H.R. 12 (119th) Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 4443 (119th) Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness, Injury, and Fatality Prevention Act of 2025
- H.R. 924 (119th) NO BAN Act
- H.R. 4163 (119th) PRIDE Act of 2025
Related bills
- S. 3882 (119th) Fair Legal Access Grants ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.