House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Animal Welfare Enforcement Improvement Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 17, 2021
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 1, 2021 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3277.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 85, May 17, 2021, Page H2421):Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 17, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 45 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3277, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/3277
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 3, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 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 January 3, 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
58 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 57 Democrats
1 of 58 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Cynthia Axne (D-IA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), James Cooper (D-TN), J. Correa (D-CA), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jesús García (D-IL), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Mondaire Jones (D-NY), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Al Lawson (D-FL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and 28 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.