Senate bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Sponsor: Sen. Jeff Sessions R-ALWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 12, 2015
- Committee actionFeb 24, 2015
- Passed SenateFeb 26, 2015 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 27, 2015 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 527.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 527, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in the Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act” on March 4, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the Senate on February 26, 2015”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 4, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49988
- CBO publication date
- March 4, 2015
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 527, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/527
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
fcbb24ea799308b0a11025d4b3a53ff45181d255336935d9f2833313256bf426
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 527, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in the Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act” on March 4, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the Senate on February 26, 2015”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 4, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49988
- CBO publication date
- March 4, 2015
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 527, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/527
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
fcbb24ea799308b0a11025d4b3a53ff45181d255336935d9f2833313256bf426
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Congress.gov noteFor further action, see H.R.431, which became Public Law 114-5 on 3/7/2015.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 527, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/527
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
fcbb24ea799308b0a11025d4b3a53ff45181d255336935d9f2833313256bf426
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list 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
74 cosponsors — 34 Republicans, 39 Democrats, 1 independent
40 of 74 cosponsors (54%) are from the other party.
Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), John Barrasso (R-WY), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Richard Burr (R-NC), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Bob Casey (D-PA), Daniel Coats (R-IN), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Susan Collins (R-ME), Christopher Coons (D-DE), Bob Corker (R-TN), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Michael Enzi (R-WY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Al Franken (D-MN), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and 44 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.