House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Child Tax Credit Integrity Preservation Act of 2013
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 22, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 22, 2013 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2778.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KINGSTON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H4857):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 292 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2778, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2778
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 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 December 5, 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
17 cosponsors — 17 Republicans
0 of 17 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Joe Barton (R-TX), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Paul Broun (R-GA), Bill Flores (R-TX), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Walter Jones (R-NC), Billy Long (R-MO), Scott Perry (R-PA), Joseph Pitts (R-PA), Bill Posey (R-FL), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Matt Salmon (R-AZ), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA).
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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.