House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Voting Access Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 17, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: May 17, 2017 — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2499.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRIJALVA, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 85, May 17, 2017, Page H4312):U.S. Const. art. I, Sec. Sec. 1 and 8.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 17, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 38 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2499, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2499
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 11, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 11, 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
61 cosponsors — 61 Democrats
0 of 61 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Karen Bass (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), John Conyers (D-MI), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Susan Davis (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Bill Foster (D-IL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), John Garamendi (D-CA), Denny Heck (D-WA), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Ro Khanna (D-CA) and 31 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Raúl Grijalva.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.