About the bill
The bill would be much harder to enforce since last September, when the daytime talk show Maury ended, including its famed “lie detector test” episodes.
Context
Newly elected freshman Rep. George Santos (R-NY3) was hailed as a Republican rising star. At the relatively young congressional age of 34, he flipped a district represented by a Democrat.
That positive aura all came crashing down about a month and a half after the election, when *New York Times *journalists revealed Santos lied about numerous elements of his biography.
Among other details, he claimed to have been a volleyball star on a championship team of a college he never attended, worked at a company he never worked for, said his grandparents escaped the Holocaust when they didn’t, and claimed his mother died …
Sponsor and status
118th Congress (2023–2025)
Introduced on Jan 12, 2023
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 12, 2023. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Other activity may have occurred on another bill with identical or similar provisions.
12 Cosponsors (12 Democrats)
History
|
Dec 30, 2022
|
|
Earlier Version —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 9703 (117th). |
|
Jan 12, 2023
|
|
Introduced
Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber. |
|
|
If this bill has further action, the following steps may occur next: | |
|
—
|
|
Passed Committee
|
|
—
|
|
Passed House
|
|
—
|
|
Passed Senate
|
|
—
|
|
Signed by the President
|
H.R. 350 is a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 350. This is the one from the 118th Congress.
How to cite this information.
We recommend the following MLA-formatted citation when using the information you see here in academic work:
“H.R. 350 — 118th Congress: SANTOS Act.” www.GovTrack.us. 2023. September 30, 2023 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr350>
- show another citation format:
- APA
- Blue Book
- Wikipedia Template
Where is this information from?
GovTrack automatically collects legislative information from a variety of governmental and non-governmental sources. This page is sourced primarily from Congress.gov, the official portal of the United States Congress. Congress.gov is generally updated one day after events occur, and so legislative activity shown here may be one day behind. Data via the congress project.
