House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission in Cervidae Study Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 29, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 15, 2019 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 837.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ABRAHAM, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 18, January 29, 2019, Page H1284):Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 29, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 63 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 837, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/837
- 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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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 CBO cost estimate or 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
32 cosponsors — 28 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 32 cosponsors (12%) are from the other party.
Jack Bergman (R-MI), Ted Budd (R-NC), James Comer (R-KY), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Ron Estes (R-KS), Abby Finkenauer (D-IA), Greg Gianforte (R-MT), Bob Gibbs (R-OH), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Garret Graves (R-LA), Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), J. Hill (R-AR), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), John Joyce (R-PA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Trent Kelly (R-MS), Ron Kind (D-WI), Steve King (R-IA), Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Martha Roby (R-AL), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Scott Tipton (R-CO), Marc Veasey (D-TX), Steve Watkins (R-KS) and 2 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 116th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Ralph Abraham.
- H.R. 1495 (116th) Income Verification Act
- H.R. 6921 (116th) Healthy Dog Importation Act
- H.Res. 522 (116th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the production of oil and natural gas is essential to the economy and well-being…
- H.R. 1238 (116th) To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to treat certain planted soybean crops as harvested commodity crops under the Market Facilitation…
- H.Res. 620 (116th) In the Matter of Nancy Pelosi.
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.