House bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act of 2019
Sponsor: Rep. Dwight Evans D-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 8, 2019
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 31, 2019 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2585.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. EVANS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 76, May 8, 2019, Page H3502):Article I of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 8, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 43 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2585, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/2585
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
94154ad9289398aa412b1d88740e4797cbbe1e9462fdca7064fe035601153233
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
79 cosponsors — 79 Democrats
0 of 79 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Nanette Barragán (D-CA), 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), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Tj Cox (D-CA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Bill Foster (D-IL), Jesús García (D-IL), Debra Haaland (D-NM), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Brian Higgins (D-NY), James Himes (D-CT) and 49 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.