Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
United States Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Act
Official title: A bill to establish and implement a multi-year Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Strategy to reduce the negative environmental and social impacts of illicit gold mining in the Western Hemisphere, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. John Cornyn R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 16, 2025
- Committee actionJan 29, 2026
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 10, 2026 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 329.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3496.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3496, United States Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Act” on April 1, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on February 10, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 1, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62296
- CBO publication date
- April 1, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3496, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/3496
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 22, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 22, 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
3 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
2 of 3 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
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.