House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Ounce of Prevention Act
Official title: To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to allow certain grantees to use Community Development Block Grant amounts for natural disaster mitigation activities, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 30, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 30, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9557.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LICCARDO, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 109, June 30, 2026, Page H4365):Article 1, Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United Sates, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 30, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 172 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9557, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9557
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 4, 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
7 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats
4 of 7 cosponsors (57%) are from the other party.
Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Maria Salazar (R-FL), William Timmons (R-SC), Jill Tokuda (D-HI).
More from the sponsor
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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.