House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJan 16, 2019
- Committee actionApr 9, 2019
- Passed HouseMay 20, 2019 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 21, 2019 — 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. 615.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 615, Refugee Sanitation Facility Safety Act of 2019” on April 24, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on April 9, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 24, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55161
- CBO publication date
- April 24, 2019
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 615, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/615
- 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 Ms. MENG, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 9, January 16, 2019, Page H677):Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 16, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 46 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 615, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/615
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
cf099e695707f566ba4d90d690e2aaf92694dc195be770ad690d6ef2e85eea0c
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. 615, 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
42 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 40 Democrats
2 of 42 cosponsors (5%) are from the other party.
Karen Bass (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Debra Haaland (D-NM), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Katie Hill (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), William Keating (D-MA), Ann Kuster (D-NH), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James McGovern (D-MA), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Mark Pocan (D-WI), David Price (D-NC), Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and 12 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Grace Meng.
- H.R. 1771 (116th) Divided Families Reunification Act
- H.Res. 908 (116th) Condemning all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19.
- H.R. 1377 (116th) Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act
- H.Res. 813 (116th) Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- H.R. 6563 (116th) Emergency Educational Connections Act of 2020
- H.R. 1882 (116th) Menstrual Equity For All Act of 2019
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.