House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Duty of Transparency Act
Official title: To require Members of Congress to provide disclosures related to absences from attendance, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Ritchie Torres D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 16, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 16, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9769.
- 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. 172, No. 116, July 16, 2026, Page H4625):Article 1, Section 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 16, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 21 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9769, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9769
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 10, 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 October 10, 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
2 cosponsors — 2 Democrats
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ritchie Torres.
- H.R. 973 (119th) Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act
- H.R. 8669 (119th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York, as the "Eliot L. Engel…
- H.R. 8562 (119th) To designate a building of the Chancery of the United States in Pristina, Kosovo, as the "Eliot L. Engel Building".
- H.R. 6677 (119th) Professional Degree Access Restoration Act
- H.R. 7004 (119th) Public Integrity in Financial Prediction Markets Act of 2026
- H.R. 6603 (119th) Our Parks Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.