House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2023
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 22, 2023
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 22, 2023 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1699.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FROST, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 52, March 22, 2023, Page H1328):Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 of the U.S. Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To establish the Office of Gun Violence PreventionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 22, 2023 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 157 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1699, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1699
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 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 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
96 cosponsors — 96 Democrats
0 of 96 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Becca Balint (D-VT), Donald Beyer (D-VA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Greg Casar (D-TX), Ed Case (D-HI), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), James Clyburn (D-SC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Angie Craig (D-MN), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Jason Crow (D-CO), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Danny Davis (D-IL), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Lois Frankel (D-FL), John Garamendi (D-CA), Robert Garcia (D-CA), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) and 66 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.