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Did Monica De La Cruz pass five bills in her first term, including one on fentanyl?

Matches stated record claim. Five of her measures passed the House; two were nonbinding resolutions. One became law in September 2024, ordering a study of synthetic-drug trafficking finance, not enforcement.

Monica De La Cruz

Her first term: five measures passed, one signed into law

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What they say

Her campaign says that in her first term she secured passage of five key pieces of legislation, including a bill targeting fentanyl trafficking that was signed into law.

“securing the passage of five key pieces of legislation, including the first bill in nearly 20 years from her community to be signed into law, targeting fentanyl trafficking”

What the record shows ·

Five measures she sponsored passed the House in the 118th Congress: H.R. 1076 (402 to 2, May 22, 2023), H.Res. 683 on Mexico's water deliveries (voice vote, November 28, 2023), H.Res. 1065 on immigration policy (226 to 193, March 12, 2024), the HUD Transparency Act (voice vote, July 22, 2024) and the Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act (voice vote, December 4, 2024). H.R. 1076 was signed on September 13, 2024 as Public Law 118-79. It orders the Comptroller General to study how the trafficking of synthetic drugs, including fentanyl, is financed.

Limit: Passage here means the House. Only H.R. 1076 became law that term, and two of the five are House resolutions, which carry no force of law. The fentanyl law orders a study rather than new enforcement. Before hers, the last bill by a 15th District member to become law was signed in July 2005.

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  1. Abouthttps://monicaforcongress.us/about/

    Monica for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign biography. Undated; it describes her first term in the past tense, so it was written after 2024.

    candidate statement

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  2. H.R. 1076, Preventing the Financing of Illegal Synthetic Drugs Act, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1076

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    She is the sponsor. Passed the House 402 to 2 on May 22, 2023, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on July 23, 2024, signed September 13, 2024 as Public Law 118-79.

    official legislative record

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  3. Roll Call 228 of 2023, H.R. 1076, on suspending the rules and passing the billhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023228

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of May 22, 2023, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. Her vote is listed under her member ID, D000594.

    official legislative record

    For: Did Monica De La Cruz pass five bills in her first term, including one on fentanyl?

  4. Public Law 118-79https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ79/PLAW-118publ79.htm

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Enacted text. Section 3 orders the Comptroller General to study illicit financing in the trafficking of synthetic drugs, including fentanyl.

    official legislative record

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  5. H.Res. 683, 118th Congress, on Mexico's water deliveries under the 1944 treatyhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/683

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    She is the sponsor. Agreed to by the House by voice vote on November 28, 2023. A House resolution has no force of law.

    official legislative record

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  6. H.Res. 1065, 118th Congress, denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policieshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/1065

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    She is the sponsor. Agreed to 226 to 193 on March 12, 2024 (Roll Call 85). A House resolution has no force of law.

    official legislative record

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  7. Roll Call 85 of 2024, H.Res. 1065, on agreeing to the resolutionhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202485

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of March 12, 2024, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. Her vote is listed under her member ID, D000594.

    official legislative record

    For: Did Monica De La Cruz pass five bills in her first term, including one on fentanyl?

  8. H.R. 7280, HUD Transparency Act of 2024, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7280

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    She is the sponsor. Passed the House by voice vote on July 22, 2024; referred in the Senate.

    official legislative record

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  9. H.R. 7480, Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7480

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    She is the sponsor. Passed the House by voice vote on December 4, 2024; referred in the Senate. Reintroduced as H.R. 224 in the 119th Congress.

    official legislative record

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  10. H.R. 1072, 109th Congress, a post office naming bill by Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15)https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/1072

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Became Public Law 109-27 on July 12, 2005. Of the bills sponsored by the district's two members before her, Rubén Hinojosa (105th to 114th Congresses) and Vicente Gonzalez (115th to 117th for the 15th District), it is the last to become law, read from each member's Congress.gov sponsored-legislation list on October 1, 2026. Gonzalez's one enacted bill, Public Law 118-220 of January 2, 2025, came when he represented the 34th District.

    official legislative record

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