House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedAug 7, 2018
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 20, 2018 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6659.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Miss RICE of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 164, No. 132, August 7, 2018, Page H7748):Article I Section VIIISource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 7, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 22 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6659, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/6659
- 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
17 cosponsors — 17 Democrats
0 of 17 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
David Cicilline (D-RI), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Sean Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Scott Peters (D-CA), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Kathleen Rice.
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- H.R. 2433 (115th) Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Virtual Currencies Act
- H.R. 974 (115th) BRAVE Act
- H.R. 2805 (115th) Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards Act of 2017
- H.Res. 1043 (115th) Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit with limited exceptions the participation of any Member, Delegate, Resident…
- H.Res. 622 (115th) Supporting the designation of the week beginning November 13, 2017, as "National Apprenticeship Week".
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.