House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Keep the Promise Act of 2013
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 9, 2013
- Committee actionJul 24, 2013
- Passed HouseSep 17, 2013 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 18, 2013 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1410.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1410, Keep the Promise Act of 2013” on September 16, 2013. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 24, 2013”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 16, 2013 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44580
- CBO publication date
- September 16, 2013
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1410, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1410
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 20, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-210 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 17, 2013.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 17, 2013 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/210
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1410, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1410
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 20, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b27fec72051eab1eaa32391b6b20c54b0d393aedbb837a9545de5679c181412b
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H1858):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3Source: Congress.gov, record updated June 20, 2025 ↗
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1410, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/1410
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 20, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b27fec72051eab1eaa32391b6b20c54b0d393aedbb837a9545de5679c181412b
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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
8 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 5 Democrats
5 of 8 cosponsors (62%) are from the other party.
John Conyers (D-MI), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Daniel Kildee (D-MI), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), Ed Pastor (D-AZ), Matt Salmon (R-AZ), David Schweikert (R-AZ).
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks.
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- H.R. 3410 (113th) CIPA
- H.R. 447 (113th) Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2013
- H.Res. 601 (113th) Condemning the death sentence against Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, a Sudanese Christian woman accused of apostasy.
- H.Res. 153 (113th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 violates article I…
- H.Res. 56 (113th) Celebrating the life of President Ronald Wilson Reagan on the anniversary of his birth.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.