House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016
Sponsor: Rep. Vern Buchanan R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 5, 2015
- Committee actionSep 14, 2016
- Passed HouseSep 21, 2016 · 400–20
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 22, 2016 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3957.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3957, Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016” on September 19, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 14, 2016”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52030
- CBO publication date
- September 19, 2016
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3957, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3957
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-749 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on September 16, 2016.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 16, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/749
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3957, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3957
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCHANAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 165, November 5, 2015, Page H8153):Article I, Section 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 5, 2015 ↗
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 21 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3957, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3957
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
33 cosponsors — 21 Republicans, 12 Democrats
12 of 33 cosponsors (36%) are from the other party.
Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Curt Clawson (R-FL), Ander Crenshaw (R-FL), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Gwen Graham (D-FL), Alan Grayson (D-FL), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), David Jolly (R-FL), John Mica (R-FL), Jeff Miller (R-FL), Patrick Murphy (D-FL), Richard Nugent (R-FL), Pete Olson (R-TX), Bill Posey (R-FL), Thomas Rooney (R-FL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Dennis Ross (R-FL), Matt Salmon (R-AZ), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Filemon Vela (D-TX), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and 3 more.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 2506 (114th) Seniors' Health Care Plan Protection Act of 2015
- H.R. 5169 (114th) What Works to Move Welfare Recipients into Jobs Act
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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.