House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedSep 13, 2019
- Committee actionDec 18, 2019
- Passed HouseJan 28, 2020 · 392–22
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 30, 2020 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4331.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4331, Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2019” on January 22, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on December 18, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 22, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56057
- CBO publication date
- January 22, 2020
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4331, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4331
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 10, 2026
- 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. 147, September 13, 2019, Page H7711):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 13, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4331, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/4331
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
fde24b094626d69543f73cc9dc40ffa1ebdee58f45d2c9da9dd49340f4468835
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 January 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4331, last updated January 10, 2026. 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
35 cosponsors — 10 Republicans, 25 Democrats
10 of 35 cosponsors (29%) are from the other party.
Ami Bera (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Andy Levin (D-MI), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), Brian Mast (R-FL), Ben McAdams (D-UT), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Mark Meadows (R-NC), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Scott Perry (R-PA), Dean Phillips (D-MN), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Denver Riggleman (R-VA), Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), John Rutherford (R-FL), Tim Ryan (D-OH), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Christopher Smith (R-NJ) and 5 more.
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.