HB 1453 — Protecting consumers by increasing penalties for scrap metal businesses who purchase stolen copper from telecommunication cables.
Congress · introduced 2025-01-21
AN ACT Relating to protecting consumer access to telecommunications, including emergency services, by increasing penalties for scrap metal businesses who purchase stolen copper from telecommunication cables;
Latest action: 2026-01-12 — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Sponsors
- Griffey, Dan (R, WA-35) — sponsor · 2025-01-21
- Couture, Travis (R, WA-35) — cosponsor · 2025-01-21
- Valdez, Michelle (R, WA-26) — cosponsor · 2025-01-21
- Davis, Lauren (D, WA-32) — cosponsor · 2025-01-21
- Nance, Greg (D, WA-23) — cosponsor · 2025-01-21
- Scott, Shaun (D, WA-43) — cosponsor · 2025-01-21
- Simmons, Tarra (D, WA-23) — cosponsor · 2025-01-21
Action timeline
- · house — First reading, referred to Consumer Protection & Business.
- · house — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Text versions
No text versions on file yet — same ingest as the action timeline populates these. Each version has direct links to the XML / HTML / PDF at govinfo.gov.
Connected on the graph
Inbound (7)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-21 | Couture, Travis | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-21 | Davis, Lauren | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-21 | Griffey, Dan | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-21 | Nance, Greg | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-21 | Scott, Shaun | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-21 | Simmons, Tarra | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-21 | Valdez, Michelle | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Griffey, Dan (R, state_lower WA-35) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Couture, Travis (R, state_lower WA-35) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Davis, Lauren (D, state_lower WA-32) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Nance, Greg (D, state_lower WA-23) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Scott, Shaun (D, state_lower WA-43) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Simmons, Tarra (D, state_lower WA-23) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Valdez, Michelle (R, state_lower WA-26) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Davis, Lauren (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Nance, Greg (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Simmons, Tarra (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Scott, Shaun (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-21 · sponsored by Griffey, Dan (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Valdez, Michelle (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Couture, Travis (cosponsor) · sponsorship