House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Girls Count Act of 2014
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedOct 30, 2013
- Committee actionJul 30, 2014
- Passed HouseNov 19, 2014 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 20, 2014 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3398.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3398, Girls Count Act of 2014” on September 12, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 30, 2014”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 12, 2014 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45714
- CBO publication date
- September 12, 2014
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3398, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3398
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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. CHABOT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H6955):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 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 receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 380 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3398, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3398
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3bc931b6b8b837f71b7e618db7b96de9c806561bf03b4a86140f2ba6f71c353b
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3398, last updated December 6, 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
56 cosponsors — 15 Republicans, 41 Democrats
41 of 56 cosponsors (73%) are from the other party.
Karen Bass (D-CA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ander Crenshaw (R-FL), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), John Delaney (D-MD), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Joe Garcia (D-FL), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), James Himes (D-CT), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Michael Honda (D-CA), William Keating (D-MA), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), John Lewis (D-GA), Daniel Lipinski (D-IL), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Ben Luján (D-NM), Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and 26 more.
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.