House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMay 7, 2018
- Committee actionMay 9, 2018
- Passed HouseJun 19, 2018 · 342–13
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 20, 2018 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5687.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5687, Securing Opioids and Unused Narcotics with Deliberate Disposal and Packaging Act of 2018” on June 11, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 9, 2018”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 11, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54003
- CBO publication date
- June 11, 2018
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5687, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5687
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 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. HUDSON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 73, May 7, 2018, Page H3782):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 7, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5687, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/5687
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
6c2e9804897491a892ffdfe80b7864cd57030093854fa44ee56ff9802ed85cd9
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 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5687, last updated April 21, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 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 — 6 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 7 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
Andy Barr (R-KY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Budd (R-NC), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Bruce Poliquin (R-ME), Greg Walden (R-OR).
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.