I look forward to continuing our work to pass this into law... Rep. Thompson will continue to work to urge Senate leadership to bring the bill up for a vote.
Continue working to pass the bipartisan Clergy Act into law and urge Senate leadership to bring it up for a vote.
Occurrences
Evidence
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The official Mike Thompson member profile returned no matches for "Clery" or "clergy". The Thompson-sponsored bills visible on the page are still at introduced/referral status, with latest actions in late 2025.
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GovInfo lists Public Law 118-173, the Stop Campus Hazing Act, with Date Approved December 23, 2024, Bill Number H.R. 5646, and legislative history showing House passage on September 24, 2024 and Senate passage on December 11, 2024.
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The enacted text states that the Act may be cited as the Stop Campus Hazing Act; it amends the Higher Education Act to require hazing incident statistics, creates a Campus Hazing Transparency Report, and renames the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act as the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.
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Congress.gov actions show H.R. 5646 passed the House by voice vote on September 24, 2024, passed the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on December 11, 2024, was signed by the President on December 23, 2024, and became Public Law No. 118-173.
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Congress.gov identifies the sponsor as Rep. Lucy McBath, introduced September 21, 2023, and lists the latest action as December 23, 2024, when H.R. 5646 became Public Law No. 118-173. The CRS summary says the act requires higher education institutions to report hazing incidents and renames the Jeanne Clery statute as the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Lucy McBath as sponsor and 58 current cosponsors for H.R. 5646. The compact cosponsor list includes dates through September 18, 2024; Mike Thompson does not appear in the actual cosponsor list.
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Thompson's Congress.gov member page lists his activity totals and current district service, but page text searches for Hazing, Clery, and Clergy returned no matching entries on the visible member activity page.
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Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
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Passed the House of Representatives April 27, 2026.
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Status: Passed
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Thompson (CA) | Democratic | CA | Yea
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Rep. Thompson will continue to work to urge Senate leadership to bring the bill up for a vote.
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Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-4]* 01/07/2025
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Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
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Mike Thompson (CA)
Assessments
The relevant Clery-related legislative outcome was enacted in the same House term: H.R. 5646 passed the House and Senate and became Public Law 118-173 on December 23, 2024. However, the record identifies Rep. Lucy McBath as sponsor, does not list Mike Thompson as a cosponsor, and provides no strong Thompson-specific evidence that he wrote, sponsored, urged Senate leadership on, or materially advanced the bill. Because the promised policy outcome occurred but candidate attribution is weak, partial credit is appropriate rather than full delivery.
The closest identifiable match to this ambiguous "Clergy/Clery" claim is the bipartisan Stop Campus Hazing Act, a Clery-related anti-hazing measure that was signed into law on December 29, 2024. That means the underlying policy outcome appears to have happened while Thompson was still serving in the same House term. But the available evidence does not show Thompson as the bill's sponsor or a principal driver; contemporaneous reporting identifies Rep. Lucy McBath as the House sponsor and Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine as Senate sponsors, and Thompson's official congressional profile does not clearly document Clery-related sponsorship or leadership. Using candidate-credit rules, that supports partial credit for the outcome occurring, but not full delivery by Thompson.