Epstein Files Transparency Act - Introduction in House

From: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA-17)To: U.S. House of Representatives, House Committee on the Judiciary
H.R. 4405IntroducedDOJ Disclosure119th Congress
EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT H.R. 4405 (119th Congress) This Congress.gov record documents the lifecycle of H.R. 4405, titled the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The bill page identifies Representative Ro Khanna as sponsor and shows introduction in the House on July 15, 2025. It also records final enacted status: Public Law 119-38 on November 19, 2025. The official actions listed on the bill page show chamber-by-chamber movement in sequence: - Introduction in the House (2025-07-15) - House passage by recorded vote on suspension of the rules (2025-11-18) - Senate passage by unanimous consent without amendment (2025-11-19) - Presentation to the President and enactment as law (2025-11-19) For archive users, this entry is the authoritative legislative index record. It captures sponsorship, committee referral, roll-call metadata, and the official action trail that connects initial filing to final enactment. The page also links to bill text versions and statutory status, making it the core citation point for legal timeline work. This document should be read together with the enrolled text version to analyze exact statutory language. The bill page establishes procedural history; the enrolled PDF contains the final codified text presented for presidential signature and publication as law. Source: Congress.gov Available at: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405

The Epstein Case in 2025

In February 2025, the Justice Department released "Epstein Files: Phase 1", including a flight-log exhibit, a redacted contact book and an evidence list, much of it previously public. After a July 2025 DOJ-FBI memo said no further disclosure was warranted, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The House passed it 427-1 on November 18, 2025, it became law on November 19, and it required the Justice Department to publish its Epstein records within 30 days; the first production followed on December 19, 2025.

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