House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
BREATHE Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 6, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 7, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2059.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. POLIS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 60, April 6, 2017, Page H2792):Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (relating to the power of Congress to regulate Commerce with the foreign Nationa, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes).Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 6, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 171 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2059, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2059
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 11, 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 August 11, 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
52 cosponsors — 52 Democrats
0 of 52 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Val Demings (D-FL), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), William Keating (D-MA), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), James Langevin (D-RI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and 22 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jared Polis.
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- H.R. 3314 (115th) 100 by '50 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.