House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act
Official title: To restore competition in the meatpacking industry by reducing excessive concentration and market power and ultimately reduce prices for American consumers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Pramila Jayapal D-WAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 16, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 16, 2026 — Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Small Business, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9744.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JAYAPAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 116, July 16, 2026, Page H4624):This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 16, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 224 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9744, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9744
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 25, 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 August 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
16 cosponsors — 16 Democrats
0 of 16 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Becca Balint (D-VT), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Jesús García (D-IL), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Susie Lee (D-NV), Grace Meng (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Emily Randall (D-WA), Patrick Ryan (D-NY), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
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- H.Res. 473 (119th) Calling for the urgent delivery and disbursement of humanitarian aid to address the needs of civilians in Gaza.
- H.R. 3069 (119th) Medicare for All Act
- H.R. 3971 (119th) Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act
Related bills
- S. 4007 (119th) Family Grocery and Farmer Relief 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.