House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Bureau of Reclamation Pumped Storage Hydropower Development Act
Sponsor: Rep. Doug Lamborn R-COWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 14, 2019
- Committee actionDec 5, 2019
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 5, 2019 — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 537.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 537, Bureau of Reclamation Pumped Storage Hydropower Development Act” on December 20, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on December 5, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 20, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55981
- CBO publication date
- December 20, 2019
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 537, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/537
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 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. LAMBORN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 7, January 14, 2019, Page H544):Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 14, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 29 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 537, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/537
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
8add6d2c5b871bbc0682d07c6e01b7903e08acd6d27ab8dee0bc0b455b336e77
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 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
2 cosponsors — 2 Republicans
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
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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.