House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Surface Transportation Research and Development Act of 2026
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out certain activities related to surface transportation research, development, and deployment, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 12, 2026
- Committee actionMay 20, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 20, 2026 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8748.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FONG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 80, May 12, 2026, Page H3393):Section 8 of Article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 12, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 42 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8748, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8748
- 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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.