House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Research and Development Modernization Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 14, 2018
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 19, 2018 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6121.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 99, June 14, 2018, Page H5201):Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. ____________________Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 14, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 76 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6121, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/6121
- 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
7 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 7 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
John Faso (R-NY), Robert Goodlatte (R-VA), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Mike Rogers (R-AL), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Darren Soto (D-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Austin Scott.
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- H.R. 1722 (115th) Protecting American Jobs Act
- H.R. 3546 (115th) End Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act of 2017
- H.R. 5855 (115th) Consumer Protection and Fuel Transparency Act of 2018
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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.