Senate bill · 114th Congress · Did not become law
Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act of 2015
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 17, 2015
- Committee actionJun 9, 2015
- Passed SenateJul 14, 2015 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 15, 2015 — Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 756.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 756, Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act of 2015” on June 19, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on June 11, 2015”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 19, 2015 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/50334
- CBO publication date
- June 19, 2015
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 756, 114th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/756
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 14, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of January 14, 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
6 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 5 Democrats
1 of 6 cosponsors (17%) are from the other party.
Christopher Coons (D-DE), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Gary Peters (D-MI), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).
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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.