House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Commonsense Permitting for Job Creation Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 31, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 3, 2015 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3434.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HURT of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 123, July 31, 2015, Page H5782):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 31, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3434, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3434
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 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.
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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
6 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 6 cosponsors (17%) are from the other party.
Barbara Comstock (R-VA), J. Forbes (R-VA), H. Griffith (R-VA), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), Robert Wittman (R-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Robert Hurt.
- H.R. 5424 (114th) Investment Advisers Modernization Act of 2016
- H.R. 2354 (114th) Streamlining Excessive and Costly Regulations Review Act
- H.R. 1965 (114th) Small Company Disclosure Simplification Act
- H.Res. 585 (114th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding an Interstate 73 corridor transportation compact.
- H.R. 2929 (114th) Supporting Home Owner Rights Enforcement Act
- H.R. 3122 (114th) VALOR Act of 2015
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.