House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Hack Your State Department Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 5, 2018
- Committee actionMay 9, 2018
- Passed HouseSep 25, 2018 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 26, 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. 5433.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5433, Hack Your State Department Act” on May 24, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on May 9, 2018”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 24, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53914
- CBO publication date
- May 24, 2018
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5433, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5433
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 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 Mr. TED LIEU of California, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 55, April 5, 2018, Page H3059):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 5, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5433, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5433
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
e093857d06eb0ab391e4bb1145fca597244a1cb562e896e0d1f86edaee588d2c
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 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
3 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
1 of 3 cosponsors (33%) 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.