House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Shark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 2016
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 24, 2016
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
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Latest action: Jun 29, 2016 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5584.
- 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. 162, No. 102, June 24, 2016, Page H4181):Article I, section 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 24, 2016 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 21 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5584, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5584
- 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
26 cosponsors — 11 Republicans, 15 Democrats
11 of 26 cosponsors (42%) are from the other party.
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Blake Farenthold (R-TX), Sam Farr (D-CA), Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Christopher Gibson (R-NY), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), John Katko (R-NY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Patrick Meehan (R-PA), Bill Posey (R-FL), Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS), Ed Royce (R-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Lee Zeldin (R-NY).
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. 4309 (114th) 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.
- 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.