House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Equal Protection in Travel Act of 2017
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 30, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 14, 2017 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 730.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. AMASH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 15, January 30, 2017, Page H745):Congress has the implied power to repeal laws that exceed its constitutional authority as well as laws within its constitutional authority.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 30, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 139 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 730, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/730
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 11, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b02d0b73b4e8567dbaf18a1d4a6a1b31592edcd4fdffb798202a20c918e22722
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
3 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
2 of 3 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
John Conyers (D-MI), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Thomas Massie (R-KY).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Justin Amash.
- H.R. 1850 (115th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 907 Fourth Avenue in Lake Odessa, Michigan, as the "Donna Sauers…
- H.R. 5142 (115th) Readable Legislation Act of 2018
- H.R. 5143 (115th) Searchable Legislation Act of 2018
- H.J.Res. 102 (115th) Relating to the disapproval of the proposed export to the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of certain defense articles.
- H.R. 3114 (115th) Export-Import Bank Termination Act
- H.R. 923 (115th) To repeal the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
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.