House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 16, 2015
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseJan 27, 2015 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 28, 2015 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 398.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. ELLMERS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 8, January 16, 2015, Page H412):The Commerce Clause: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power ``to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 206 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 398, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/398
- 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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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.
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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 — 3 Republicans, 2 Democrats, 1 independent
3 of 6 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Mike Bishop (R-MI), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Renee Ellmers.
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- H.R. 270 (114th) Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2015
- H.R. 1387 (114th) Fairness for Farmers Act of 2015
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.