skip to main content
Hide All The Ads With a Yearly Membership Subscribe ▶

H.R. 5538 (114th): Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017

Call or Write Congress

React to this bill with an emoji

(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes.

The bill’s titles are written by its sponsor.

The federal budget process occurs in two stages: appropriations and authorizations. This is an appropriations bill, which sets overall spending limits by agency or program, typically for a single fiscal year (October 1 through September 30 of the next year).

Sponsor and status

Photo of sponsor Ken Calvert

Ken Calvert

Sponsor. Representative for California's 42nd congressional district. Republican.

Thumbnail of bill text
Read Text »
Last Updated: Sep 6, 2016
Length: 200 pages
Introduced
Jun 21, 2016
114th Congress (2015–2017)
Status
Died in a previous Congress

This bill was introduced in a previous session of Congress and was passed by the House on July 14, 2016 but was never passed by the Senate.

Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).

Source
Congress.gov
(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

History

Jun 21, 2016
 
Introduced

Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber.

Jun 21, 2016
 
Reported by House Committee on Appropriations

A committee issued a report on the bill, which often provides helpful explanatory background on the issue addressed by the bill and the bill's intentions.

Read Report » Read Text »

Jul 14, 2016
 
Passed House (Senate next)

The bill was passed in a vote in the House. It goes to the Senate next.

thumbnail image of vote View Vote » Read Updated Text » See Changes »

H.R. 5538 (114th) was a bill in the United States Congress.

A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.

Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 5538. This is the one from the 114th Congress.

This bill was introduced in the 114th Congress, which met from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 3, 2017. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.

How to cite this information.

We recommend the following MLA-formatted citation when using the information you see here in academic work:

“H.R. 5538 — 114th Congress: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017.” www.GovTrack.us. 2016. September 27, 2023 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr5538>

Where is this information from?

GovTrack automatically collects legislative information from a variety of governmental and non-governmental sources. This page is sourced primarily from Congress.gov, the official portal of the United States Congress. Congress.gov is generally updated one day after events occur, and so legislative activity shown here may be one day behind. Data via the congress project.