House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Act to Ban Zohydro
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 13, 2014
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 14, 2014 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4241.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LYNCH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H2434):Article 1 section 8 Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 63 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4241, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/4241
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 3, 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 3, 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
18 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 14 Democrats
4 of 18 cosponsors (22%) are from the other party.
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Michael Grimm (R-NY), Brian Higgins (D-NY), William Keating (D-MA), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Michael Michaud (D-ME), Harold Rogers (R-KY), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH), Jackie Speier (D-CA), John Tierney (D-MA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Peter Welch (D-VT), Frank Wolf (R-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Stephen Lynch.
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- H.R. 5391 (113th) National POW/MIA Remembrance Act of 2014
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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.