House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
CONSENT Act
Official title: To establish a private right of action against a person who transmits unsolicited intimate visual depictions.
Sponsor: Rep. Jennifer McClellan D-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 4, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 4, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9155.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. McCLELLAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 95, June 4, 2026, Page H3908):Clause 1 of section 8 of article 1 of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 4, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9155, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9155
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 25, 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 25, 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 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jennifer McClellan.
- H.R. 2313 (119th) Celestial Time Standardization Act
- H.R. 2532 (119th) To prohibit certain removals of employees of the Department of Health and Human Services and sub-agencies and operating divisions thereof…
- H.R. 4894 (119th) Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2025
- H.Res. 585 (119th) Recognizing the threat of extreme weather to children's health and well-being, and expressing the sense of Congress that solutions must be…
- H.Res. 955 (119th) Recognizing the importance of a continued commitment to ending pediatric HIV/AIDS worldwide.
- H.R. 5965 (119th) Student Veteran Work Study Modernization Act
Related bills
- S. 4695 (119th) CONSENT ActIdentical 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.