House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Baseball Diplomacy Act
Official title: To waive certain prohibitions with respect to nationals of Cuba coming to the United States to play organized professional baseball.
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Cohen D-TNWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 27, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 27, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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. 2415.
- 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. 171, No. 56, March 27, 2025, Page H1338):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 27, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2415, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2415
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 14, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
258e90149f810bd62ffcc7422ae7f8b894f6b9764e29eff313e86d9bc420443c
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 May 14, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen.
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- H.R. 9401 (119th) Latonya Reeves Freedom Act of 2026
- H.R. 5451 (119th) Aviation Funding Stability Act of 2025
- H.R. 5427 (119th) Billionaires Income Tax Act
- H.R. 1056 (119th) To include the Czech Republic in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the United States as E1…
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.