House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas Water Rights Settlement Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 25, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 15, 2019 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3491.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WATKINS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 107, June 25, 2019, Page H5168):Article I, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 25, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3491, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3491
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 9, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 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 December 9, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Watkins.
- H.R. 1872 (116th) Enhancing Credit Opportunities in Rural America Act of 2019
- H.R. 4800 (116th) Pro-LIFE Act
- H.R. 1061 (116th) Fort Scott National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act
- H.Res. 382 (116th) Honoring the 65th anniversary of the landmark decision of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education (347 U.S. 483 (1954)).
- H.R. 3150 (116th) RURAL Physicians Act
- H.R. 2159 (116th) Public Diplomacy Modernization Act of 2019
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.