House bill · 112th Congress · Did not become law
Support and Defend Our Military Personnel and Their Families Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 20, 2011
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 7, 2012 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3761.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. THOMPSON of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H10016):Article I, Section 8, Clause 4Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3761, 112th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/3761
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 14, 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 August 14, 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
16 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 15 Democrats
1 of 16 cosponsors (6%) are from the other party.
Howard Berman (D-CA), John Conyers (D-MI), Bob Filner (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Michael Honda (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Jared Polis (D-CO), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Linda Sánchez (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 112th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Thompson.
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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.