HR 664 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2015

Introduced Feb 2, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Mark Sanford R-SC

Latest action · Mar 20, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedFeb 2, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2015

This bill states that:

the President may not prohibit or otherwise regulate travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions incident to such travel, including banking transactions;
any regulation in effect on the date of enactment of this Act prohibiting or otherwise regulating such travel or transactions incident to such travel shall cease to have any force or effective; but
the prohibitions and requirements of this Act shall not apply if the United States is at war with Cuba, armed hostilities between the two countries are in progress, or there is imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. travelers.

Cosponsors 131

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 2, 2015 to Sep 12, 2016; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Feb 2, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Feb 2, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Feb 2, 2015
R-UT	Jason Chaffetz	Original	Feb 2, 2015
R-ND	Kevin Cramer	Original	Feb 2, 2015
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Feb 3, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Feb 3, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Feb 3, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		Feb 3, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Feb 3, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr		Feb 3, 2015
R-KY	Thomas Massie		Feb 4, 2015
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Feb 24, 2015
R-WY	Cynthia M. Lummis		Mar 6, 2015
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Apr 23, 2015
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Apr 23, 2015
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Apr 23, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Apr 23, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Apr 23, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Apr 23, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Apr 23, 2015
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Apr 23, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Apr 23, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Apr 23, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Apr 23, 2015
D-NY	Steve Israel		Apr 23, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Apr 23, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis		Apr 29, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Apr 29, 2015
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Jun 1, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Jun 2, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jun 9, 2015
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Jun 23, 2015
D-NE	Brad Ashford		Jul 15, 2015
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Jul 15, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus		Jul 15, 2015
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Jul 15, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jul 15, 2015
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Jul 15, 2015
R-WI	Reid J. Ribble		Jul 29, 2015
D-CA	Karen Bass		Sep 15, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Sep 17, 2015
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Oct 1, 2015
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford		Oct 16, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Oct 28, 2015
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Nov 16, 2015
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Feb 9, 2016
D-MD	John K. Delaney		Feb 11, 2016
I-MI	Justin Amash		Feb 11, 2016
D-CA	Mark Takano		Feb 12, 2016
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Feb 12, 2016
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Feb 23, 2016
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Feb 24, 2016
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Feb 24, 2016
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Feb 24, 2016
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Feb 24, 2016
R-FL	David W. Jolly		Feb 25, 2016
R-TX	Ted Poe		Feb 25, 2016
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Mar 1, 2016
D-CA	John Garamendi		Mar 1, 2016
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Mar 3, 2016
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Mar 3, 2016
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Mar 3, 2016
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Mar 3, 2016
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Mar 3, 2016
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Mar 3, 2016
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Mar 7, 2016
R-SC	Mick Mulvaney		Mar 7, 2016
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Mar 14, 2016
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Mar 16, 2016
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Mar 16, 2016
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Mar 16, 2016
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Mar 16, 2016
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Mar 16, 2016
D-MI	Debbie Dingell		Mar 16, 2016
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Mar 16, 2016
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Mar 16, 2016
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Mar 16, 2016
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Mar 16, 2016
D-TX	Gene Green		Mar 16, 2016
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Mar 16, 2016
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Mar 16, 2016
D-GA	John Lewis		Mar 16, 2016
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Mar 16, 2016
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Mar 16, 2016
D-CA	Judy Chu		Mar 16, 2016
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Mar 16, 2016
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Mar 16, 2016
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Mar 16, 2016
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Mar 16, 2016
D-WI	Ron Kind		Mar 16, 2016
D-VI	Stacey E. Plaskett		Mar 16, 2016
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Mar 17, 2016
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Mar 17, 2016
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Mar 17, 2016
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Mar 17, 2016
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Mar 17, 2016
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Mar 17, 2016
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Mar 17, 2016
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Mar 17, 2016
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Mar 17, 2016
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Mar 21, 2016
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Mar 21, 2016
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Mar 21, 2016
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Mar 21, 2016
D-FL	Patrick Murphy		Mar 21, 2016
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Mar 21, 2016
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Mar 21, 2016
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Mar 23, 2016
D-WA	Adam Smith		Apr 11, 2016
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Apr 11, 2016
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Apr 11, 2016
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Apr 11, 2016
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Apr 14, 2016
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Apr 18, 2016
D-CT	James A. Himes		Apr 18, 2016
D-HI	Mark Takai		Apr 18, 2016
D-CA	Lois Capps		Apr 19, 2016
R-AL	Mo Brooks		Apr 20, 2016
R-LA	Ralph Lee Abraham		Apr 20, 2016
D-NC	David E. Price		Apr 21, 2016
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Apr 26, 2016
R-KS	Tim Huelskamp		Apr 27, 2016
R-IL	Rodney Davis		May 12, 2016
R-IL	Darin LaHood		May 18, 2016
D-WA	Denny Heck		May 24, 2016
R-GA	Austin Scott		Jun 3, 2016
R-AZ	David Schweikert		Jun 7, 2016
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Jun 9, 2016
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Jul 13, 2016
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Sep 12, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Foreign Affairs Committee	Referred Feb 2, 2015
	Western Hemisphere Subcommittee	Referred Mar 20, 2015

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 20, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
Feb 2, 2015Introduced in House
Feb 2, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H3888	Barbara Lee D-CA	Jun 4, 2015

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3, granting authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18, granting authority to make all laws that are necessary and proper for executing the foregoing powers.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 17, February 2, 2015, page H705.

CRS reports 2

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 2

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
RL31139	Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances Archived	Report	Dec 15, 2022
R43926	Cuba: Issues and Actions in the 114th Congress Archived	Report	Jan 18, 2017

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 299	Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2015	Identical bill	Jan 29, 2015
HR 351	Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2017	Reintroduced Bill	Feb 16, 2017

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To allow travel between the United States and Cuba.
Short Titles as Introduced: Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2015

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 2, 2015Introduced in House

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