Senate bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
RAWR Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 22, 2019
- Committee actionSep 25, 2019
- Passed SenateOct 22, 2019 · by voice vote
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 23, 2019 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1590.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1590, Rescuing Animals With Rewards Act of 2019” on October 3, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on September 26, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 3, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55693
- CBO publication date
- October 3, 2019
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1590, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/s/1590
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1590, last updated December 5, 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
39 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 33 Democrats, 2 independents
4 of 39 cosponsors (10%) are from the other party.
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Thomas Carper (D-DE), Bob Casey (D-PA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Christopher Coons (D-DE), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Doug Jones (D-AL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Edward Markey (D-MA), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Patty Murray (D-WA), Gary Peters (D-MI), John Reed (D-RI), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and 9 more.
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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.