House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Medical Nutrition Equity Act of 2017
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 22, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 16, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2587.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DELANEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 88, May 22, 2017, Page H4424):Article I, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 22, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2587, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2587
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 21, 2026
- 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 January 21, 2026). 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 — 12 Republicans, 20 Democrats
12 of 32 cosponsors (38%) are from the other party.
Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Tom Cole (R-OK), Barbara Comstock (R-VA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Brian Higgins (D-NY), James Himes (D-CT), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Evan Jenkins (R-WV), Walter Jones (R-NC), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), John Lewis (D-GA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Tom Marino (R-PA), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), C. Ruppersberger (D-MD), Tim Ryan (D-OH), Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH), Michael Simpson (R-ID), Scott Tipton (R-CO), Paul Tonko (D-NY) and 2 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. John Delaney.
- H.R. 2683 (115th) Protecting Veterans Credit Act of 2018
- H.R. 2366 (115th) Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy Act of 2017
- H.R. 1669 (115th) Partnership to Build America Act of 2017
- H.R. 1827 (115th) Medical Leave for Disabled Veterans Act
- H.Res. 202 (115th) Reaffirming the commitment of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
- H.R. 1670 (115th) Infrastructure 2.0 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.