House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2017
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 3, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 3, 2017 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 112.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCHANAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 1, January 3, 2017, Page H49):Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 46 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 112, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/112
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 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 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
32 cosponsors — 18 Republicans, 14 Democrats
14 of 32 cosponsors (44%) are from the other party.
Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Val Demings (D-FL), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Al Lawson (D-FL), Brian Mast (R-FL), Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), Bill Posey (R-FL), Francis Rooney (R-FL), Thomas Rooney (R-FL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Dennis Ross (R-FL), John Rutherford (R-FL), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Darren Soto (D-FL), Filemon Vela (D-TX), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Daniel Webster (R-FL) and 2 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan.
- H.R. 6756 (115th) American Innovation Act of 2018
- H.R. 115 (115th) Thin Blue Line Act
- H.R. 6720 (115th) Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2018
- H.R. 113 (115th) Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2017
- H.R. 253 (115th) Family First Prevention Services Act of 2017
- H.R. 111 (115th) Support Our Start-Ups Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.