House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 8, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 10, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1440.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEN RAY LUJAN of New Mexico, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 40, March 8, 2017, Page H1949):Article I, Section 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 8, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 21 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1440, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1440
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 11, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
690a30429c7822bbae1245659786874d6703ab5cb954880de3da225b2e1205bc
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 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1440, last updated August 11, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
31 cosponsors — 31 Democrats
0 of 31 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Julia Brownley (D-CA), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), John Conyers (D-MI), Susan Davis (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), William Keating (D-MA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), David Loebsack (D-IA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James McGovern (D-MA), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Raul Ruiz (D-CA), John Sarbanes (D-MD), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Peter Welch (D-VT) and 1 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ben Luján.
- H.R. 5587 (115th) Peer Support Communities of Recovery Act
- H.R. 1439 (115th) Keeping Our Campaigns Honest Act of 2017
- H.R. 3495 (115th) Opioid and Heroin Abuse Crisis Investment Act of 2017
- H.R. 2049 (115th) Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2017
- H.R. 1169 (115th) Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act
- H.R. 3878 (115th) Free Credit Freeze 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.