House bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 5, 2015
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseDec 6, 2016 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 7, 2016 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 756.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTWRIGHT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 20, February 5, 2015, Page H856):Article 1, Section 8 (relating to the power of Congress 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.)Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 5, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 205 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 756, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/756
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 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 April 7, 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
56 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 49 Democrats
7 of 56 cosponsors (12%) are from the other party.
Donald Beyer (D-VA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), John Conyers (D-MI), John Delaney (D-MD), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Sam Farr (D-CA), Christopher Gibson (R-NY), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), James Himes (D-CT), Michael Honda (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Steve Israel (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), David Joyce (R-OH), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Leonard Lance (R-NJ), James Langevin (D-RI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), David Loebsack (D-IA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Ben Luján (D-NM), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and 26 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.