House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Marketplace Certainty Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 14, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 20, 2017 — Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6046)
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3258.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RUIZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 119, July 14, 2017, Page H5885):Article I, section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the United States Constitution, to provide for the general welfare and make all laws necessary and proper to carry out the powers of Congress.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 14, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 184 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3258, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3258
- 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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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 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
80 cosponsors — 80 Democrats
0 of 80 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), James Clyburn (D-SC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), John Conyers (D-MI), J. Correa (D-CA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Danny Davis (D-IL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Val Demings (D-FL), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), John Garamendi (D-CA), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Gene Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI) and 50 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Raul Ruiz.
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- H.R. 1844 (115th) Veterans Access to Community Care Act of 2017
- H.R. 4114 (115th) Environmental Justice Act of 2017
- H.R. 5060 (115th) Heroes Lesley Zerebny and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act of 2018
- H.R. 2575 (115th) BENES Act of 2017
- H.R. 1622 (115th) Wounded Veterans Recreation 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.