House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Save America’s Family Forests Act of 2026
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for limited full expensing of certain reforestation expenditures.
Sponsor: Rep. Earl Carter R-GAWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 28, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 28, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8538.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 74, April 28, 2026, Page H3132):Article 1, Section 8 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 28, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 40 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8538, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8538
- 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
10 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 10 cosponsors (20%) are from the other party.
Brian Babin (R-TX), Aaron Bean (R-FL), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), Gregory Murphy (R-NC), John Rose (R-TN), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Terri Sewell (D-AL), W. Steube (R-FL), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Mike Thompson (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 261 (119th) Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 2493 (119th) Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025
- H.R. 1455 (119th) ITS Codification Act
- H.Res. 283 (119th) Electing a Member to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives.
- H.R. 2289 (119th) American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025
Related bills
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.