House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for an NIH research strategic plan.
Sponsor: Rep. Andy Harris R-MDWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 19, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 22, 2015 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2447.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HARRIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 77, May 19, 2015, Page H3390):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 19, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2447, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2447
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
5291c63b42555b72874ebb4a427eb17b00af78253a64af4629a69e4828d27b79
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 April 7, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Andy Harris.
- H.R. 6468 (114th) FILCA of 2016
- H.R. 221 (114th) Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Prevention Act
- H.R. 5549 (114th) Medical Marijuana Research Act of 2016
- H.R. 3508 (114th) American Solution for Simplifying the Estate Tax Act of 2015
- H.R. 3498 (114th) Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2105 [sic]
- H.R. 2448 (114th) To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a program of high-risk, high-reward research.
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.