Helping Heroes Vote Act of 2013

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2168.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HECK of Washington, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H2957):
  Article I Section 8 clause 12, which gives Congress the authority to ``raise and support Armies''; Article I Section 4, which gives Congress the authority to enact legislation pertaining to the time and manner by which Representatives and Senators are elected; The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees, in part, that no State shall ``deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,'' which the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled to be inclusive of those laws pertaining to the right to vote.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 12, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  552 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2168, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2168

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 12, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2a1a75ba0adad254b72af7f23ce7e7157a56bd041f469a1129a000e66ecfe23d

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2168, last updated August 12, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 23, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.