House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Short-Term Holding Facility Standards Restoration Act.
Official title: To prohibit long-term custody in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facilities, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where 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 the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8557.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STANTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 74, April 28, 2026, Page H3133):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 28, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8557, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8557
- 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.
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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
3 cosponsors — 3 Democrats
0 of 3 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Seth Moulton (D-MA).
More from the sponsor
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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.