Bills · 119th Congress · Emergency Management

Relating to a national emergency by the President on July 30, 2025.

Where it stands

  1. Introduced8/29/25
  2. Passed House
  3. Senate
  4. President
  5. Law

Introduced in the House on August 29, 2025.

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Roll calls on this bill

Procedural motions
HouseOn Motion to Table the Motion to Discharge Committee · 9/15/25Motion to tableA vote to set the pending question aside for good. Agreeing to table something is equivalent to defeating it — a yes vote kills it, a no vote keeps it alive.Senate glossary: motion to table ↗
Passed · Yea 200 · Nay 198Official source ↗
Official summary (CRS)

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Sponsor
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks ( Democrat · NY-5)
Cosponsors
7
Introduced
8/29/25
Policy area
Emergency Management

What happens next

The House must pass it, then the Senate must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.

If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2027, it expires when the 119th Congress ends.

All actions (8)
  1. 8/29/25Introduced in House
  2. 8/29/25Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
  3. 9/15/25MOTION TO DISCHARGE COMMITTEE - Mr. Meeks moved that the Committee on Foreign Affairs be discharged from further consideration of H.J. Res. 117.
  4. 9/15/25Considered as privileged matter.
  5. 9/15/25Mr. Meeks moved to discharge.
  6. 9/15/25Mr. Mast moved to table the motion to discharge
  7. 9/15/25Table Motion to Discharge Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 200 - 198 (Roll no. 265).
  8. 9/15/25Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.