House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Marriage and Religious Freedom Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 19, 2013
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- Passed House—
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- To the President—
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Latest action: Sep 19, 2013 — Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3133.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LABRADOR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H5766):This legislation has been written pursuant to protections guaranteed by the First Amendment, which outlines, ``Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,'' and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees that no person will ``be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.'' The constitutional authority on which this bill rests is the power of Congress ``to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be…Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 1,151 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3133, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3133
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 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 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
103 cosponsors — 101 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 103 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), Rob Bishop (R-UT), Diane Black (R-TN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Charles Boustany (R-LA), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Paul Broun (R-GA), John Carter (R-TX), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Chris Collins (R-NY), Doug Collins (R-GA), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Eric Crawford (R-AR), Ander Crenshaw (R-FL), Steve Daines (R-MT), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), John Duncan (R-TN), Blake Farenthold (R-TX), Stephen Fincher (R-TN), Charles Fleischmann (R-TN), John Fleming (R-LA), Bill Flores (R-TX), J. Forbes (R-VA) and 73 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Raul Labrador.
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- H.R. 657 (113th) Grazing Improvement Act
- H.R. 1363 (113th) Exploring for Geothermal Energy on Federal Lands Act
- H.R. 3382 (113th) Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013
- H.R. 4590 (113th) Future Logging Careers Act
- H.R. 1294 (113th) Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act
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.