House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 16, 2016
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 1, 2016 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4760.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 42, March 16, 2016, Page H1419):Pursuant to clause 1, section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution of the United States which states: ``The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts, and provide for the common Defense and General Welfare of the United States; but all Duties and Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 16, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 384 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4760, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4760
- 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
22 cosponsors — 22 Republicans
0 of 22 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Charles Dent (R-PA), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Trey Gowdy (R-SC), Garret Graves (R-LA), Gregg Harper (R-MS), Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Sam Johnson (R-TX), Peter King (R-NY), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Tom Marino (R-PA), Jeff Miller (R-FL), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Pete Olson (R-TX), John Ratcliffe (R-TX), Pete Sessions (R-TX), David Trott (R-MI), Randy Weber (R-TX), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ken Buck.
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- H.R. 4220 (114th) Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2016
- H.R. 4001 (114th) Fix the Footnotes Act of 2015
- H.R. 3023 (114th) To amend title 5, United States Code, to modify probationary periods with respect to positions within the competitive service and the…
- H.R. 4371 (114th) Article I Consolidated Appropriations Amendments, 2016
- H.R. 2258 (114th) To amend section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, to modify the authority of the President of the United States to declare national…
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.