House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2017
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 12, 2017
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 22, 2018 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2876.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 99, June 12, 2017, Page H4854):This proposal is introduced pursuant to Article I.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 50 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2876, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/2876
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 21, 2026
- 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 January 21, 2026). 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
63 cosponsors — 63 Democrats
0 of 63 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Julia Brownley (D-CA), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), James Cooper (D-TN), J. Correa (D-CA), Charlie Crist (D-FL), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and 33 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.