House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Thin Blue Line Act
Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty based on the status of the victim.
Sponsor: Rep. Vern Buchanan R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 14, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 14, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 378.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BUCHANAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 7, January 14, 2025, Page H149):Article 1, section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 378, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/378
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 2, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 3, 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 2, 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
43 cosponsors — 42 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 43 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.
Mark Amodei (R-NV), Don Bacon (R-NE), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Mike Bost (R-IL), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Mike Carey (R-OH), Eric Crawford (R-AR), Monica De La Cruz (R-TX), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Mike Ezell (R-MS), Julie Fedorchak (R-ND), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Russell Fry (R-SC), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Erin Houchin (R-IN), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Thomas Kean (R-NJ), David Kustoff (R-TN), Darin LaHood (R-IL), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), John McGuire (R-VA) and 13 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan.
- H.R. 4313 (119th) Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act
- H.R. 5347 (119th) Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility Act
- H.R. 139 (119th) Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 919 (119th) Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act
- H.R. 6130 (119th) ASAP Act
- H.R. 9501 (119th) AI Tax Integrity Act of 2026
Related bills
- S. 83 (119th) Thin Blue Line ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 3, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.