House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Sergeant Gary Beikirch Medal of Honor Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow a surviving spouse of a Medal of Honor recipient to receive a special pension concurrently with dependency and indemnity compensation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Joseph Morelle D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 28, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 4, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 803.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MORELLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 18, January 28, 2025, Page H407):This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 28, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 134 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 803, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/803
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 10, 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 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
5 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats
2 of 5 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Andrea Salinas (D-OR), Claudia Tenney (R-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joseph Morelle.
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- H.R. 2148 (119th) Veteran Caregiver Reeducation, Reemployment, and Retirement Act
- H.J.Res. 108 (119th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that there is no immunity from criminal prosecution for an act…
- H.R. 2381 (119th) SCREENS for Cancer Act of 2025
- H.R. 4708 (119th) Spotted Lanternfly Research and Development 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.