House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Disaster Assistance Equity Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedOct 29, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 30, 2015 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3863.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ISRAEL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 160, October 29, 2015, Page H7347):This bill is enacted pursuant to the powers granted to the Congress by Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 29, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 126 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3863, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3863
- 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
21 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 18 Democrats
3 of 21 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
Michael Capuano (D-MA), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), James Himes (D-CT), Peter King (R-NY), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Mark Sanford (R-SC), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Lee Zeldin (R-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Israel.
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- H.R. 3970 (114th) Housing Our Heroes Act
- H.R. 2067 (114th) Cold War Service Medal Act of 2015
- H.Res. 378 (114th) Expressing support for the designation of September 2015 as "National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month".
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.