House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
CLAWS Act of 2024
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 24, 2024
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- Passed House—
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- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 24, 2024 — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9785.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LANGWORTHY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 149, September 24, 2024, Page H5748):Article I, Section 8 of the Unites States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit to Congress an annual report on biomedical research funded by the United States and performed in China.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 24, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 274 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9785, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9785
- 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.
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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
2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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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.