House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 18, 2019
- Committee actionDec 19, 2019
- Passed HouseFeb 5, 2020 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 10, 2020 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3830.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3830, Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act” on January 15, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on December 19, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 15, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56024
- CBO publication date
- January 15, 2020
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3830, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3830
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WALBERG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 121, July 18, 2019, Page H7151):Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7--No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 18, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 247 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3830, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/3830
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
211f1f9dc6995ed907472710271537dbaeef4b646edd983f9faa11342069ac97
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3830, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 20, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
6 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 4 Democrats
5 of 6 cosponsors (83%) are from the other party.
James Cooper (D-TN), Jim Costa (D-CA), Ben McAdams (D-UT), Mark Meadows (R-NC), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ).
More from the sponsor
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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.