House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
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 Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3865.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. JENKINS of West Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 160, October 29, 2015, Page H7347):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
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3865, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3865
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
23b9b95b420e4d2bbd55c91e3710e4552e14620c19e4a5f6809e93ba6853ba32
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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3865, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
39 cosponsors — 31 Republicans, 8 Democrats
8 of 39 cosponsors (21%) are from the other party.
Diane Black (R-TN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Charles Boustany (R-LA), Susan Brooks (R-IN), Bradley Byrne (R-AL), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Ryan Costello (R-PA), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Robert Dold (R-IL), John Duncan (R-TN), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Frank Guinta (R-NH), James Himes (D-CT), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), David Jolly (R-FL), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Leonard Lance (R-NJ), Robert Latta (R-OH), Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), Thomas MacArthur (R-NJ), James McGovern (D-MA), David McKinley (R-WV), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Alexander Mooney (R-WV), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and 9 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Evan Jenkins.
- H.R. 4978 (114th) NAS Healthy Babies Act
- H.R. 5668 (114th) Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act of 2016
- H.R. 5155 (114th) Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2016
- H.Res. 167 (114th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the committees of jurisdiction in the House of Representatives should craft…
- H.Con.Res. 182 (114th) Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the sinking of the U.S.S. West Virginia during…
- H.J.Res. 107 (114th) Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule.
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.