House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 16, 2014
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 20, 2014 — Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3899.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SENSENBRENNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H1242):Fifteenth Amendment, Section 2 Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 317 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3899, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3899
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4cff610c9335a7b38f13990bc28c24652e88fcf446ebcc0624aa8d2d22ad3188
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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
177 cosponsors — 11 Republicans, 165 Democrats, 1 independent
166 of 177 cosponsors (94%) are from the other party.
Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Ron Barber (D-AZ), Karen Bass (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Robert Brady (D-PA), Bruce Braley (D-IA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Lois Capps (D-CA), John Carney (D-DE), André Carson (D-IN), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), James Clyburn (D-SC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), John Conyers (D-MI) and 147 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.