House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Fair Debt Collection Practices Technical Clarification Act of 2013
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 31, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 31, 2013 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2892.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PERLMUTTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H5262):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2892, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2892
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
15eb1f073d8b9c01fd4685848644f474db6335bc027dd93298be66afa3651cb4
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 12, 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
7 cosponsors — 7 Republicans
7 of 7 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Tim Griffin (R-AR), George Holding (R-NC), Robert Hurt (R-VA), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Robert Pittenger (R-NC), Steve Stivers (R-OH).
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ed Perlmutter.
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- H.R. 2077 (113th) Password Protection Act of 2013
- H.R. 2652 (113th) Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act of 2013
- H.R. 4205 (113th) National Design Services Act of 2014
- H.Con.Res. 99 (113th) Expressing support for designation of a "National Lao-Hmong Recognition Day".
- H.Res. 230 (113th) To recognize and honor our nation's veterans on the 70th anniversaries of World War II battles.
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.