House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
To codify Executive Order 11246 titled "Equal Employment Opportunity".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 5, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 5, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 989.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. BROWN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 24, February 5, 2025, Page H505):Article I Section VIIISource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 22 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 989, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/989
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
429ab3d2c9909300b93bf095be8a24c3d9d5b79b9cb5b621031bc5f62d413155
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 6, 2025). 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
92 cosponsors — 92 Democrats
0 of 92 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Troy Carter (D-LA), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Lois Frankel (D-FL) and 62 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.