House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2018
Sponsor: Rep. Christopher Smith R-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 5, 2017
- Committee actionMay 17, 2018
- Passed HouseSep 13, 2018 · 393–2
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 17, 2018 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1911.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1911, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2018” on June 13, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on May 17, 2018”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 13, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54050
- CBO publication date
- June 13, 2018
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1911, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1911
- 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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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 59, April 5, 2017, Page H2754):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 Article I, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 5, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 93 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1911, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/1911
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
29c1c76f24913fc21af023df187c36259918bf3637b1476cff7a96b492f834e0
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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
86 cosponsors — 34 Republicans, 51 Democrats, 1 independent
52 of 86 cosponsors (60%) are from the other party.
Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Mike Bishop (R-MI), Mike Bost (R-IL), Robert Brady (D-PA), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Michael Burgess (R-TX), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Daniel Donovan (R-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), John Faso (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Thomas Garrett (R-VA), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and 56 more.
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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.