House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Coral Reef Sustainability Through Innovation Act of 2016
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 17, 2016
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 30, 2016 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4811.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SLAUGHTER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 43, March 17, 2016, Page H1463):Sections 5 and 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United StatesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 17, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 70 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4811, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/4811
- 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
15 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 13 Democrats
2 of 15 cosponsors (13%) are from the other party.
Donald Beyer (D-VA), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Sam Farr (D-CA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Alan Grayson (D-FL), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Patrick Murphy (D-FL), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Takai.
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- H.R. 483 (114th) Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2015
- H.R. 4652 (114th) CLEAR Act
- H.Res. 206 (114th) Expressing support for designation of April 2015 as "National Learn to Swim Month".
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.