House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Prohibit Wildlife Killing Contests Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 22, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 3, 2024 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8492.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COHEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 89, May 22, 2024, Page H3484):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States The single subject of this legislation is: Environmental ProtectionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 22, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 139 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8492, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8492
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 24, 2025
- 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 January 24, 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
20 cosponsors — 20 Democrats
0 of 20 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Cori Bush (D-MO), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Katie Porter (D-CA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Dina Titus (D-NV), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen.
- H.R. 3315 (118th) National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Extension Act of 2023
- H.R. 7224 (118th) To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program.
- H.R. 4693 (118th) Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Transparency Act
- H.R. 2708 (118th) Latonya Reeves Freedom Act of 2023
- H.R. 4241 (118th) Horse Transportation Safety Act of 2023
- H.R. 6498 (118th) Billionaire Minimum Income Tax 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.