House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
MINKS are Superspreaders Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 13, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 13, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7670.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. MACE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 45, March 13, 2024, Page H1182):clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: To prohibit the captivity of American mink.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 13, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 142 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7670, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7670
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 21, 2024
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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 December 21, 2024). 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
24 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 16 Democrats
16 of 24 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Troy Carter (D-LA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY), Donald Davis (D-NC), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Dean Phillips (D-MN), Deborah Ross (D-NC), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Marc Veasey (D-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace.
- H.R. 7909 (118th) Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
- H.R. 5527 (118th) Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act
- H.R. 4502 (118th) Modernizing the Acquisition of Cybersecurity Experts Act of 2023
- H.R. 5721 (118th) Rape Kit Backlog Progress Act of 2023
- H.R. 4552 (118th) Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2024
- H.R. 4503 (118th) AI Training Expansion Act of 2023
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.