House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reimburse each possession of the United States for the cost of the earned income tax credit.
Sponsor: Rep. Gregorio Sablan D-MPWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 18, 2015
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 18, 2015 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4309.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SABLAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 185, December 18, 2015, Page H10711):Article 4, Section 3.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 18, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 21 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4309, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4309
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 3, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
84b4d4f5d30ef0a33b1b50c248f6bf28bd096b0bb13ba08ed5483b67e77f6582
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 January 3, 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
4 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 3 Democrats
1 of 4 cosponsors (25%) are from the other party.
Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Pedro Pierluisi (D-PR), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Gregorio Sablan.
- H.R. 5889 (114th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Chalan Kanoa VLG in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, as the…
- H.R. 6401 (114th) Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act
- H.R. 5584 (114th) Shark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 2016
- H.R. 3607 (114th) U.S. Territorial Federal Judges Improvement Act of 2015
- H.R. 4531 (114th) To approve an agreement between the United States and the Republic of Palau, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 5773 (114th) Stop Tobacco Smuggling in the Insular Areas Act of 2016
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.