House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
VERDAD Reauthorization Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 14, 2023
- Committee actionMar 20, 2024
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 21, 2024 — Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 41 - 9.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6831.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 6831, VERDAD Reauthorization Act” on April 2, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 21, 2024”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 2, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60181
- CBO publication date
- April 2, 2024
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6831, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6831
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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. SALAZAR, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 206, December 14, 2023, Page H6988):Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Venezuela SanctionsSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 14, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 83 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6831, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6831
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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.
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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
18 cosponsors — 13 Republicans, 5 Democrats
5 of 18 cosponsors (28%) are from the other party.
Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Lance Gooden (R-TX), John James (R-MI), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Dean Phillips (D-MN), Keith Self (R-TX), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Darren Soto (D-FL), Michael Waltz (R-FL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Randy Weber (R-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Maria Salazar.
- H.R. 4389 (118th) Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of 2023
- H.R. 5349 (118th) Crucial Communism Teaching Act
- H.R. 4667 (118th) RECLAIM Taxpayer Funds Act
- H.R. 537 (118th) Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.Con.Res. 9 (118th) Denouncing the horrors of socialism.
- H.R. 314 (118th) FORCE Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.