House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
No Paydays for Hostage-Takers Act
Official title: To require a report on sanctions under the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Michael Baumgartner R-WAWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 3, 2025
- Committee actionApr 9, 2025
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 9, 2025 — Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 45 - 6.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2619.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2619, No Paydays for Hostage-Takers Act” on April 21, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on April 9, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61341
- CBO publication date
- April 21, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2619, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2619
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 1, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BAUMGARTNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 60, April 3, 2025, Page H1418):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2619, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2619
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 1, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
07b4d23426c1bbad9004713c2e68782d9228e44052829735abcb13780531072a
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 1, 2026). 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
13 cosponsors — 12 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 13 cosponsors (8%) are from the other party.
Mark Amodei (R-NV), James Baird (R-IN), Robert Bresnahan (R-PA), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Abraham Hamadeh (R-AZ), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Richard McCormick (R-GA), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Derek Schmidt (R-KS), Claudia Tenney (R-NY).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.