House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJan 18, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 28, 2013 — Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 317.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GARDNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H178):Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 249 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 317, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/317
- 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.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 317, last updated August 12, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 23, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
30 cosponsors — 29 Republicans, 1 other
0 of 30 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Justin Amash (L-MI), Mark Amodei (R-NV), Dan Benishek (R-MI), Rob Bishop (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Tom Cole (R-OK), John Fleming (R-LA), Bill Flores (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Kay Granger (R-TX), Sam Graves (R-MO), Tim Griffin (R-AR), Doc Hastings (R-WA), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Billy Long (R-MO), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Mark Meadows (R-NC), Stevan Pearce (R-NM), E. Rigell (R-VA), Austin Scott (R-GA), Steve Southerland (R-FL), Chris Stewart (R-UT), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Scott Tipton (R-CO), Greg Walden (R-OR), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA).
More from the sponsor
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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.