Senators Ron Wyden and Kirsten Gillibrand joined as original cosponsors. Posey obtained a bipartisan group of cosponsors and introduced legislation in June 2015. Calvert worked to assemble a bipartisan group of 48 cosponsors for this legislation. The amendment garnered 37 cosponsors, all Republicans. The Senate hate crime amendment had 44 cosponsors, including four Republicans. In the 113th Congress Representative Heck reintroduced the modified act, receiving 65 cosponsors. Representative Schakowsky reintroduced the bill as in January 2015, where it gained 35 cosponsors. In the 109th Congress, the legislation collected 101 cosponsors. A final push by proponents resulted in 70 Senate cosponsors, three more than needed. The proposed bill reached the Arizona legislature in January 2010 and gained 36 cosponsors. The bill had 15 cosponsors, but never reached a vote. The bill, which had 58 cosponsors, never made it out of committee. He introduced it with 25 cosponsors, in 2003, and reintroduced it each session since then. Some bills have hundreds of cosponsors. An unlimited number of cosponsors of a bill is permitted.