Recognizing the hundreds of thousands of lives lost during Sri Lanka's almost 30-year armed conflict, which ended 15 years ago on May 18, 2009, and ensuring nonrecurrence of past violence, including the Tamil Genocide, by supporting the right to self-determination of Eelam Tamil people and their call for an independence referendum for a lasting peaceful resolution.
Latest action · May 16, 2024 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3278-3279)
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.
- IntroducedMay 15, 2024
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 15, 2024 to Jun 14, 2024, with 7 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Original | May 15, 2024 |
| D-NC | Donald G. Davis | Original | May 15, 2024 |
| D-NC | Jeff Jackson | Original | May 15, 2024 |
| R-OH | Mike Carey | Original | May 15, 2024 |
| R-NY | Nicole Malliotakis | Original | May 15, 2024 |
| D-PA | Summer L. Lee | Original | May 15, 2024 |
| D-PA | Susan Wild | Original | May 15, 2024 |
| D-NM | Gabe Vasquez | Jun 14, 2024 | |
| D-MI | Hillary J. Scholten | Jun 14, 2024 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 16, 2024Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3278-3279)
- May 15, 2024Introduced in House
- May 15, 2024Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 15, 2024Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this resolution on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.