House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedSep 27, 2017
- Committee actionDec 14, 2017
- Passed HouseFeb 7, 2018 · 407–0
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 8, 2018 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3851.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3851, War Crimes Rewards Expansion Act” on January 26, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on December 14, 2017”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 26, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53515
- CBO publication date
- January 26, 2018
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3851, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3851
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. FOXX, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 155, September 27, 2017, Page H7588):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 grants Congress the power to ``To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;''Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 27, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 175 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3851, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/3851
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f61c0bef861b1885b1071b5034d7cff5babeb6ed00f78d8f6f68757c7cf0e132
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 committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3851, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
7 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 7 cosponsors (43%) are from the other party.
Eliot Engel (D-NY), Randy Hultgren (R-IL), James McGovern (D-MA), Ted Poe (R-TX), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Joe Wilson (R-SC).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Virginia Foxx.
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- H.Res. 685 (115th) Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
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.