1HOUSE · APR 28, 2025
Passed the House
365–42PASSED
R 163–42 D 202–0
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · roll 103 · 25 not voting
House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed House
Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act
Official title: To establish consumer standards for lithium-ion batteries.
Sponsor: Rep. Ritchie Torres D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 4, 2025
- Committee actionApr 8, 2025
- Passed HouseApr 28, 2025 · 365–42
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 29, 2025 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 973.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 119-77 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 24, 2025.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 24, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
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- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/77
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 973, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/973
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 11, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TORRES of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 23, February 4, 2025, Page H461):Article 1, Section 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 4, 2025 ↗
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- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 973, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/973
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 11, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
1 recorded roll-call vote on H.R. 973. The vote that moved the bill is first.
Yea–nay by party (R = Republicans, D = Democrats, I = independents). Counts for present and not-voting members are shown where there were any. Showing all 1 of 1 recorded votes. Sorted by date; within a chamber by roll-call number.
Cosponsors
23 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 17 Democrats
6 of 23 cosponsors (26%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Laura Friedman (D-CA), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Craig Goldman (R-TX), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), George Latimer (D-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Grace Meng (D-NY), Kevin Mullin (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Patrick Ryan (D-NY), Adam Smith (D-WA), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
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