House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Private Investment in Housing Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 9, 2015
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseJul 14, 2015 · 395–28
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 15, 2015 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2997.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROSS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 106, July 9, 2015, Page H5030):Welfare Clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1); Commerce Clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3)Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 9, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 97 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2997, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2997
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7a552465c1c765ddf1c3b80cfdcf98a07471ea830bbc48c000ad495e80e78726
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
3 cosponsors — 3 Democrats
3 of 3 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), John Delaney (D-MD), James Himes (D-CT).
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.