House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 25, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 11, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2670.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BROWN of Maryland, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 91, May 25, 2017, Page H4608):Necessary and Proper Clause (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 18)Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 25, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 52 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2670, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2670
- 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
86 cosponsors — 86 Democrats
0 of 86 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Susan Davis (D-CA), John Delaney (D-MD), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Bill Foster (D-IL), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI) and 56 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Anthony Brown.
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- H.Res. 826 (115th) Noting the Baltic States of Estonia's, Latvia's, and Lithuania's 100th anniversary of independence.
- H.R. 3036 (115th) DD-214 Modernization Act
- H.R. 4093 (115th) CAMPUS HATE Crimes 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.