House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Do No Harm Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 18, 2016
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 23, 2016 — Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5272.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KENNEDY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 79, May 18, 2016, Page H2845):Article I Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 18, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 53 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5272, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5272
- 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
36 cosponsors — 36 Democrats
0 of 36 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Julia Brownley (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Kathy Castor (D-FL), David Cicilline (D-RI), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Sean Maloney (D-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James McGovern (D-MA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Robert Scott (D-VA) and 6 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 114th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joseph Kennedy.
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.