House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Increasing Penalties for Offshore Polluters Act
Official title: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase the civil and criminal penalties for oil spills, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 29, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 29, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3071.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LIEU, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 71, April 29, 2025, Page H1728):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 29, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3071, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3071
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 20, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 21, 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 October 20, 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
14 cosponsors — 14 Democrats
0 of 14 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Dave Min (D-CA), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Mike Thompson (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 21, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.