House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
GRATER Act of 2018
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 22, 2018
- Committee actionSep 27, 2018
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 27, 2018 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5381.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROYCE of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 50, March 22, 2018, Page H2042):Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United StatesSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 22, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 61 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5381, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5381
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 11, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 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
2 cosponsors — 2 Republicans
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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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.