House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJun 4, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 4, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8617.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 95, June 4, 2024, Page H3656):Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: Provide citizenship status to non-citizen intercountry adoptees.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 4, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 128 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8617, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8617
- 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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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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8617, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 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
31 cosponsors — 13 Republicans, 18 Democrats
13 of 31 cosponsors (42%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Mike Carey (R-OH), André Carson (D-IN), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Young Kim (R-CA), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Blake Moore (R-UT), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Andrea Salinas (D-OR), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Bradley Schneider (D-IL), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Michelle Steel (R-CA), Jill Tokuda (D-HI) and 1 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith.
- H.R. 6608 (118th) End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act
- H.R. 1047 (118th) Aviation-Impacted Communities Act
- H.R. 1048 (118th) Aviation Noise and Emissions Mitigation Act
- H.R. 1423 (118th) 911 Community Crisis Responders Act of 2023
- H.R. 1049 (118th) Protecting Airport Communities from Particle Emissions Act
- H.R. 5177 (118th) Expanding Service Coordinators 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.