House bill · 112th Congress · Did not become law
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to inter in national cemeteries individuals who supported the United States in Laos during the Vietnam War era.
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Costa D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedOct 13, 2011
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 25, 2011 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3192.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COSTA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H6921):Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, record updated January 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3192, 112th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/3192
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 3, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
32 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 24 Democrats
8 of 32 cosponsors (25%) are from the other party.
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Wally Herger (R-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Michael Honda (D-CA), Ron Kind (D-WI), Larry Kissell (D-NC), James Langevin (D-RI), Tom Latham (R-IA), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), James Moran (D-VA), Sue Myrick (R-NC), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Tom Petri (R-WI), Reid Ribble (R-WI), Laura Richardson (D-CA), Cedric Richmond (D-LA), Mike Ross (D-AR), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Pete Stark (D-CA) and 2 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 112th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jim Costa.
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- H.R. 5907 (112th) Yosemite National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2012
- H.R. 2740 (112th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain population census tracts for which information is not available as low-income…
- H.R. 1251 (112th) More Water for Our Valley Act, 2011
- H.R. 2650 (112th) To designate the United States courthouse under construction at 510 19th Street, Bakersfield, California, as the Myron Donovan Crocker…
- H.R. 4675 (112th) To reduce temporarily the duty on 1H-[1,2,4]Triazole.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.