House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedSep 10, 2019
- Committee actionSep 25, 2019
- Passed HouseOct 15, 2019 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 16, 2019 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4270.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4270, Placing Restrictions on Teargas Exports and Crowd Control Technology to Hong Kong Act” on October 9, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 25, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 9, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55714
- CBO publication date
- October 9, 2019
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4270, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4270
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 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. McGOVERN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 144, September 10, 2019, Page H7597):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, Clause 3, and Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 10, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 55 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4270, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4270
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 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 committee report (as of May 28, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4270, last updated May 28, 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
32 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 25 Democrats
7 of 32 cosponsors (22%) are from the other party.
David Cicilline (D-RI), Jim Costa (D-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Mark Green (R-TN), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Henry Johnson (D-GA), William Keating (D-MA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Peter King (R-NY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Andy Levin (D-MI), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), Mark Meadows (R-NC), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Dean Phillips (D-MN), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Van Taylor (R-TX), Lori Trahan (D-MA) and 2 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. James McGovern.
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- H.Res. 660 (116th) Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into…
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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.