House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Fairness for Korean DMZ Veterans Act of 2017
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas MacArthur R-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 28, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 28, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3605.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MacARTHUR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 128, July 28, 2017, Page H6579):Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 28, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3605, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3605
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f2844edb9af68b8624a4e2069bc9071d9e7ac45a04680cc129c113d2f371faae
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
48 cosponsors — 24 Republicans, 24 Democrats
24 of 48 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Rick Allen (R-GA), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Ryan Costello (R-PA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Will Hurd (R-TX), Walter Jones (R-NC), William Keating (D-MA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Ron Kind (D-WI), Peter King (R-NY), Steve King (R-IA), Stephen Knight (R-CA), Leonard Lance (R-NJ), Robert Latta (R-OH), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and 18 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Thomas MacArthur.
- H.R. 6287 (115th) 9/11 Memorial Act
- H.R. 7187 (115th) National Flood Insurance Program Further Extension Act of 2018
- H.R. 5676 (115th) SENIOR Communities Protection Act of 2018
- H.R. 4263 (115th) Regulation A+ Improvement Act of 2017
- H.Con.Res. 148 (115th) Directing the Secretary of the Senate to make a correction in the enrollment of the bill S. 3628.
- H.R. 3176 (115th) Disaster Assistance Fairness and Accountability Act of 2017
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.