House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Know Your Rights Act
Official title: To provide for improvements in the treatment of detained persons, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 3, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 3, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9124.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FOSTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 94, June 3, 2026, Page H3829):This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 3, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 124 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9124, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9124
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 30, 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 June 30, 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
9 cosponsors — 9 Democrats
0 of 9 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Jesús García (D-IL), Henry Johnson (D-GA), James McGovern (D-MA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bill Foster.
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- H.R. 9902 (119th) Federal Naming Standards Act
- H.R. 9803 (119th) Protecting Immigrants From Legal Exploitation Act of 2026
- H.Res. 1066 (119th) Expressing the condolences of the House of Representatives and honoring the memory of the victims of the mass shooting in Aurora…
Related bills
- H.R. 6839 (118th) Immigrant Detained Persons Legal Rights ActCross-Congress related bill
- H.R. 1340 (117th) Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights ActCross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.