House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
SCALE Biology Act
Official title: To establish in the National Institute of Standards and Technology a program of measurement research for engineering biology, biomanufacturing, and biometrology, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. April McClain Delaney D-MDWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 21, 2026
- Committee actionJul 21, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 21, 2026 — Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8981.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. McCLAIN DELANEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 87, May 21, 2026, Page H3725):Article I, Section 8, clause 3 (Commerce Clause)Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 21, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 48 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8981, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8981
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 15, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 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 October 15, 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.
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), James Moylan (R-GU), Jay Obernolte (R-CA), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. April McClain Delaney.
Related bills
- S. 5557 (119th) SCALE Biology ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.