House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJun 26, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 16, 2019 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3517.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. POCAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 108, June 26, 2019, Page H5202):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 26, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3517, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3517
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
846888a9d53d9a6667ae01f6cda7844be28ab151a0b5d9a1ef16e978f0133b3c
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 5, 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
110 cosponsors — 110 Democrats
0 of 110 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Karen Bass (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), David Cicilline (D-RI), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Tj Cox (D-CA), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Jason Crow (D-CO), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and 80 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Pocan.
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- H.Res. 862 (116th) Expressing support for the designation of the week of February 24 through February 28, 2020, as "Public Schools Week".
- H.R. 2747 (116th) Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2019
- H.Res. 254 (116th) Expressing support for the designation of the week of March 25 through March 29, 2019, as "Public Schools Week".
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.