House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
STRONG Kids Act
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program to, through subgrants to eligible entities, improve certain impacts of participation in programs related to physical activity or youth sports and increase access to youth sports, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Mike Carey R-OHWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 22, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 22, 2026 — Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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. 9839.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CAREY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 120, July 22, 2026, Page H5177):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 22, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9839, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/9839
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 7, 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 August 7, 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 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Carey.
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- H.R. 1453 (119th) Clean Energy Demonstration Transparency Act of 2025
- H.R. 8872 (119th) Preventing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in TANF Act
- H.R. 2036 (119th) Credit for Caring Act of 2025
- H.R. 2410 (119th) Revitalizing Downtowns and Main Streets Act
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.